Origin and popularity of the name GUILLAUME

Origin

Guillaume : French Walloon Breton West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian: from the personal name Guillaume French form of William.

Gill : 1: English and Scottish: in northern England and Scotland sometimes from Middle English Gille Old Norse Gilli which is of Irish (Gaelic) origin (see below) and pronounced with a hard g. As a personal name it is not found after c. 1200.2: English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English gille ‘deep glen ravine’ (Old Norse (Norwegian) gil) pronounced with a hard g. The term is found mainly in northwestern England where Norwegian Vikings settled.3: English: from a short form of Middle English Gilliam a borrowing of Guillaume a Central French form of William (see Gilliam) which is also attested in pet forms such as Gillot and Gilmin (see Gillett Gilman). This name will have been pronounced with a hard g.4: English: from the Middle English personal name Gille a pet form of Gillian usually a female name but occasionally male. It also gave rise to the surnames Jill Gell and Jell and was pronounced with a soft g hence the spellings with J-.5: English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Gille a variant of Giles 1.6: Scottish Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille (Scottish) Mac Giolla (Irish) patronymics from an occupational name for a servant or a short form of the various personal names formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint. See McGill. The Old Norse personal name Gilli is probably of this origin and may lie behind some examples of the name in northern England. It is also a Manx surname meaning ‘son of the lad (i.e. servant)’.7: Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac An Ghoill (see Gall 1).8: Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads in western Norway named Gil from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.9: Dutch: cognate of Giles.10: Jewish (Israeli): artificial name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’.11: German: from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegilius a later form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles 1). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).12: Polish and German: variant or a Germanized form of Polish Gil ‘bullfinch’.13: Indian (Punjab): Sikh name probably from Punjabi gil ‘moisture’ also meaning ‘prosperity’. There is a Jat tribe that bears this name; the Ramgarhia Sikhs also have a clan called Gill.

Gilliam : English: from the Middle English personal name Gill(i)am Gillem Old French Guillaume a Parisian form of Will(i)am (see William).

Gwilliam : Welsh (Pembrokeshire and western England): from the Welsh personal name Gwillym a form of Old French Guillaume (see Gilliam and William).

Vulliamy : from a variant of the personal name Guillaume French form of William.

William : 1: English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name William Willam Willem an Old Picard and Norman French form of ancient Germanic Willihelm composed of the elements wil- ‘will desire’ + helm- ‘helmet protection’. This Norman personal name became widely used in England Scotland and Wales after the Conquest mainly no doubt in honor of the Conqueror himself. By the 13th century it had already become the most popular personal name in England. A Parisian form of the name Guillaume was also sometimes used (see Gillam) which in medieval Wales was adopted as Gwilym (see Gwilliam).2: Americanized form (translation into English) of French Guillaume.

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