Giles Family History
Giles Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Giles Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Giles families
 1,099 - 2,195  367 - 1,098 |
 1 - 366  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Giles families
|
42 - 81 15 - 41 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Giles Family Origin
Giles Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Giles Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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