Gilliland

English

Alternative forms

• Gilleland

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaoláin and Irish Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (“son of the servant of (saint) Faolán”), a personal name thought to be a diminutive of Irish faol (“wolf”). Compare the surname McClellan.

Proper noun

Gilliland (plural Gillilands)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gilliland is the 2698^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13351 individuals. Gilliland is most common among White (93.7%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gilliland”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44.