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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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