Gillem
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Gillem, a variant of Guillaume, French form of William (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gillem is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the personal name Gillem, a variant of Guillaume, French form of William.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Alvan Cullem Gillemb. 1830USUnion Army general (1830-1875)
- Alvan Cullom Gillem Jr.b. 1888USUnited States Army general (1888-1973)
- Jenks Gillemb. 1890USAmerican football player and coach (1890–1951)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gillem mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Gillem, a variant of Guillaume, French form of William. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gillem have the most bearers?
- Gillem is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gillem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.