as a Last Name
- 13,068
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Gilliland
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaoláin (Scottish) or Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (Irish) ‘son of the servant of St Faolán’. Compare McClellan. Woulfe thinks that the Irish version died out and all modern forms were taken to Ulster from Scotland.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,068
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Gilliland per capita
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