Gilliland Family History
Gilliland Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Gille Fhaoláin (Scottish) or Mac Giolla
Fhaoláin (Irish) ‘son of the servant of St Faolán’.
Compare McClellan. Woulfe thinks that the Irish version died
out and all modern forms were taken to Ulster from Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
273,837
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gilliland
Name Distribution of Gilliland Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gilliland families
 79 - 156  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gilliland families
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65 - 128 22 - 64 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gilliland families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gilliland Family Origin
Gilliland Immigration Information
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Gilliland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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