Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Shield of hides
  • French : Youth

Boy name variations

Gyles

Gyles

0 % this year
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Gilles

Gilles

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Gillis

Gillis

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Gilean

Gilean

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Gileon

Gileon

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Gil

Gil

+ 22% this year
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Gillette

Gillette

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Gillian

Gillian

- 2% this year
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Egedio

Egedio

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Egide

Egide

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Egidius

Egidius

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Gide

Gide

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Jetes

Jetes

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Jyles

Jyles

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How Popular Is The Name Giles

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius (from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’). This was the name of a 7th-century Provençal hermit, whose cult popularized the name in a variety of more or less mutilated forms: Gidi and Gidy in southern France, Gil(l)i in the area of the Alpes-Maritimes, and Gil(l)e elsewhere. This last form was taken over to England by the Normans, but by the 12th century it was being confused with the Germanic names Gisel, a short form of Gilbert, and Gilo, which is from Gail (as in Gaillard).
  • Irish : adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name, based on glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.