Gil Family History
Gil Name Meaning
Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, and German: from the
personal name Gil, from French Gille(s), from Latin
Aegidius (see Giles).German: from Slavic
gil ‘bullfinch’, probably a nickname for a simpleton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gil
Name Distribution of Gil Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gil families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gil census records
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Gil Family Origin
Gil Emigration Information (US)
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Gil Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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