Gillibrand (surname)
Gillibrand (/ˈdʒɪliˌbrænd, -lɪ-/) is a surname. Around 2016, 676 people bore the name in Great Britain and none in Ireland. At the time of Great Britain's 1881 census, 608 people bore the name, predominantly in Lancashire. A variant spelling is Gellibrand.[1]
Etymology[]
The name comes into English from Anglo-Norman.[1] It was borrowed into Anglo-Norman from the medieval Continental West Germanic name Giselbrand,[1] whose first element, gisel, meant 'hostage' and whose second element, brand, meant 'firebrand', 'sword'.[2][3]
Notable people[]
People with the surname include:
- Ernest Gillibrand (1901–1976), English football forward
- Ian Gillibrand (1948–1989), English football defender
- Kirsten Gillibrand (born 1966), U.S. senator
- Nicky Gillibrand, theatrical costume designer
References[]
- ^ a b c The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1052 [s.v. Gillibrand]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
- ^ Max Gottschald, Deutsche Namenkunde, 3rd edn (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1973), p. 205.
- ^ Wilfried Seibicke, Historisches deutsches Vornamenbuch (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996), I, p. 335.
See also[]
- Gellibrand (disambiguation)
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