First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Graceful, blessing; variation of Juliana
- Greek: Shield of hides
- French: Youth
First name variations: Gillianne, Gilliana, Gilian, Gillianah, Gillien, Gillyan, Gillyana, Gillyanah, Giliane, Gyles, Gilles, Gillis, Gilean, Gileon, Gil, Gillette, Egedio, Egide, Egidius, Gide, Jetes, Jyles, Giles Last name origins & meanings:
- English: variant of Julian.
- Irish (Tyrone and
Derry): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gileáin ‘son
of Gileán’, a variant of the personal name Gealán,
from a diminutive of geal ‘bright’, ‘white’.
Famous people with this first name:
Gillian Anderson
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