Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Gillanders
“a servant of St. Andrew”
Gillanders is used as a given name and a surname. One Scottish interpretation is “a servant of St. Andrew.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scottish interpretation is “a servant of St. Andrew.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scottish.
How it developed
In Scottish use, Gillanders is used as a form of Gaelic.
Gillanders’s family of names
Gillanders has a related form in Gilanders. Gillanders is an English adaptation of Gille. Gillanders has a related form in Gylanders.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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