Given name & surname
Gilchrist
“a servant of Christ”
Gilchrist is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “a servant of Christ.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “a servant of Christ.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic Gillechrìosd (“servant of Christ”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gilchrist through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,077 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gilchrist’s family of names
In English usage, Gilchrist has a surname derivative in GILKISON. Gilchrist has a related form in Gikhrist. Gilchrist has a related form in Gilkhrist.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gilchrist
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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