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Gillibrand (surname)

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Gillibrand (/ˈɪliˌbrænd, -lɪ-/) is a surname. Around 2016, 676 people bore the name in Great Britain and none in Ireland. At the time of Great Britain's 1881 census, 608 people bore the name, predominantly in Lancashire. A variant spelling is Gellibrand.[1]

Etymology

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The name comes into English from Anglo-Norman.[1] It was borrowed into Anglo-Norman from the medieval Continental West Germanic name Giselbrand,[1] whose first element, gisel, meant 'hostage' and whose second element, brand, meant 'firebrand', 'sword'.[2][3]

Notable people

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People with the surname include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1052 [s.v. Gillibrand]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  2. ^ Max Gottschald, Deutsche Namenkunde, 3rd edn (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1973), p. 205.
  3. ^ Wilfried Seibicke, Historisches deutsches Vornamenbuch (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996), I, p. 335.

See also

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