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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : From the high peak

Boy name variations

Ogilvy

Ogilvy

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Gil

Gil

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Gilie

Gilie

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Gilly

Gilly

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place near Glamis in the former county of Angus, which is first recorded c.1205 in the form Ogilvin. It is probably named from an early British form of Welsh uchel ‘high’ + ma ‘plain’, ‘place’ (mutated to fa) or ban ‘hill’ (mutated to fan).

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