Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Ford near the wooded ravine

Boy name variations

Gilford
Guilford
Gilmore

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Ruaidh ‘son of the red-haired lad’, from ruadh ‘red’. Compare McElroy.

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