Giller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr guileor ‘deceiver, traitor’; first attested Hugh le Gilur 1242 ForEss (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡɪlə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Giller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Giller is also written גילר in Hebrew.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 36K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 96K
- NONorway1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Giller itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
13,580 named Giler, 2024
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Giller in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled Giler in EC Ecuador and גילר in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Giller
- English:/ɡɪlə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OFr guileor ‘deceiver, traitor’; first attested Hugh le Gilur 1242 ForEss
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Giller is found
(measured from records)Giller 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 13,580as Giler | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Giler | 3 |
| US United States | 946 | 1 in 352K | 1.1K | Giller | 221 |
| DE Germany | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 96K | listed | Giller | 74 |
| ES Spain | 286as Giler | 1 in 175K | 286 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Giller | 63 |
| IL Israel | 241as גילר | 1 in 36K | 241 | גילר | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 235 | 1 in 36K | 235 | Giller | 21 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Giller | 1 |
13,580 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Giller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the Yiddish male personal name Hiller, a variant of Hillel. The initial G is due to Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h to g in borrowed words.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, 3. German: habitational name for someone from Gill near Neuss, in the Rhineland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, variant of Guiler.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, something hilarious; (also) something risible, something ridiculous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, trap
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Agaton Gillerb. 1831PLPolish politician, historian and journalist (1831-1887)
- Walter Gillerb. 1927DEactor (1927–2011)
- Doris Gillerb. 1931CACanadian journalist (1931–1993)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Giller mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr guileor ‘deceiver, traitor’; first attested Hugh le Gilur 1242 ForEss Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Giller?
- In English /ɡɪlə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Giller?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Giler, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Giller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 946 people named Giller in 2010, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Giller?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gillerThe 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, “Giller” — ranked 316th in Ecuador (INEC, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.