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gilmore Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and Irish (Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant of (the Virgin) Mary’.
  2. Irish: in Armagh, reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhura ‘servant of St. Mura (of Fahan, Donegal)’ or, in Sligo, of Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.

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

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

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Distribution of gilmore Families in the US in 1920
Number of gilmore families
 266-530
 89-265		 1-88
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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