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The gillis Surname

gillis Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: reduced form of Gaelic Mac Gille Iosa ‘son of the servant of Jesus’. Compare McLeish. The usual spelling in Scotland is Gillies.
  2. Dutch form of Giles.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The gillis name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gillis family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gillis Families in the US in 1920
Number of gillis families
 205-407
 69-204		 1-68
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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