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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the personal name Guille, a short form of Guillaume (see William).
  • Perhaps a reduced form of the Irish family name McGuill, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cuill ‘son of Coll’.

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