Gilmour
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic Gille Moire ‘servant of (the Virgin) Mary’; first attested (i) Gilmor 1133–56 Black (Cumberland)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gilmour is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic Gille Moire ‘servant of (the Virgin) Mary’; first attested (i) Gilmor 1133–56 Black (Cumberland)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilmour 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 | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gilmour | 202 |
| US United States | — | 2,625 | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Gilmour | 316 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Gilmour | 161 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Gilmour | 176 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Gilmour | 33 |
| NZ New Zealand | #834 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gilmour | 83 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Gilmour | 33 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gilmour is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant spelling of Gilmore.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Léonie Gilmourb. 1873USAmerican educator, editor, and journalist (1873-1933)
- Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronetb. 1876GBBritish politician (1876-1940)
- Ian Gilmourb. 1926GBBritish politician (1926-2007)
- Ian Scottb. 1934CAnot in their usual nameCanadian lawyer and politician (1934–2006)
- David Gilmourb. 1946GBEnglish musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)
- David Gilmourb. 1949CACanadian novelist and former journalist (born 1949)
- Ian Gilmourb. 1955NZAustralian actor
- Doug Gilmourb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player
- Kirsty Gilmourb. 1993GBbadminton player
- Billy Gilmourb. 2001GBScottish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Gilmour mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic Gille Moire ‘servant of (the Virgin) Mary’; first attested (i) Gilmor 1133–56 Black (Cumberland) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Gilmour have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Gilmour in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilmour.
- How common is the name Gilmour?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,625 people named Gilmour in 2010, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilmour compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Gilmour is the 834th most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilmourThe 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, “Gilmour” — the 834th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.