Gillan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Gille/Gilles; du latin *Aegidius* (Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gillan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 46K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 56Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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*.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gillan is found
(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 6 | Gillan | 157 |
| US United States | 1,694 | 1 in 196K | 1.7K | Gillan | 252 |
| AU Australia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Gillan | 104 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Gillan | 96 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Gillan | 17 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Gillan | 47 |
| IE Ireland | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | 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)- Ian Gillanb. 1945GBEnglish singer
- Lisa Roberts Gillanb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Karen Gillanb. 1987GBScottish actress and filmmaker
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gillan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Gillan in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gillan. After it come United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- What does the name Gillan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Gille/Gilles; du latin *Aegidius*.
- 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” — ranked 236th in the United Kingdom (NRS). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.