Given name & surname
Gilmore
“a servant of the Virgin Mary”
Gilmore is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a servant of the Virgin Mary.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a servant of the Virgin Mary.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1902. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gilmore through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 753
- 753 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 32 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 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 32 in 1914. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 404 as a first name in 2020; 46,765 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.
Gilmore’s family of names
Gilmore has a related form in Gillmore. Gilmore has a related form in Gillmour. Gilmore has a related form in Gilmour.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gilmore
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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