Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Guiler.
- German : variant of Gille 2.
- German : habitational name for someone from Gill near Neuss, in the Rhineland.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Hiller, a variant of Hillel. The initial G is due to Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h to g in borrowed words.