Last Name GILLMAN

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Meaning The son of Gilmyn. Through French Guillaume we at length attained William. In the meanwhile the Low countries brought Gillemin or Willemin, which were finally retained with the G prefix.
The Gillmans are said to have come from the province of Maine, in France, into England with William the Conqueror, and to have settled in Essex, England. Whether a 'Gaulman,' a 'Gael,' or 'Brookman,' from 'gill,' a brook, the same as 'kill' in Dutch, is uncertain.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish

Rank 7,285 (2000 US census) 6,545 (1990 US census)
Count 4,218 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.17%, or 3972 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 2.51%, or 106 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.43%, or 18 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.55%, or 23 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.4%, or 59 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.95%, or 40 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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