as a Last Name
- 5,455
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gilstrap
Meaning & Origins
English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place with a name such as Gil(l)sthorp(e), the first element being on Old English or Old Norse personal name, the second being Old Norse þorp ‘hamlet’, ‘settlement’, or possibly an Anglicized form of a Danish habitational name from Gelstrup or Gølstrup in Jutland. The surname is found in SC, GA, and TX.
| 6,320th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,455
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Gilstrap per capita
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