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gillett Name Meaning and History

  1. from a pet form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William (see Gill 1).
  2. topographic name for someone living at the top of a glen or ravine, from northern Middle English gil(l) ‘glen’ + heved ‘head’.

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gillett Family Facts

Distribution of gillett Families in the US in 1920
Number of gillett families
 77-151
 26-76
 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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