Last name: GILLESPIE
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Last name frequency
GILLESPIE : This last name is indexed 138,504 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GILLESPIE : Scottish and Irish (Donegal): shortened Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Easbuig borrowed into Irish as Mac Giolla Easpaig a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
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