Gillan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Gille/Gilles; du latin *Aegidius*
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɪɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gillan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 50K
- USUnited States1 in 196K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Gille/Gilles; du latin *Aegidius*.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gillan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Gillan | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 6 | Gillan | 157 |
| US United States | 1,694 | 1 in 196K | 1.7K | Gillan | 252 |
| AU Australia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 1 | Gillan | 104 |
| CA Canada | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Gillan | 96 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Gillan | 47 |
| IE Ireland | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Gillan | 49 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Gillanb. 1799British minister
- James Angus Gillanb. 1885GBBritish colonial administrator (1885–1981)
- Ian Gillanb. 1945GBEnglish singer
- Kim Gillanb. 1951USAmerican politician
- Cheryl Gillanb. 1952GBBritish politician (1952–2021)
- Lisa Roberts Gillanb. 1965USAmerican actress
- James Gillanb. 1975GBBritish actor
- Karen Gillanb. 1987GBScottish actress and filmmaker
- Josephine Gillanb. 1988GBEnglish actress
- Audrey Gillanb. 2000GBBritish journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #16,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,678 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gillan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɪɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gillan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Gille/Gilles; du latin *Aegidius*.
- In which country does Gillan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Gillan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gillan.
- How common is the name Gillan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,694 people named Gillan in 2010, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gillanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gillan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.