Given name & surname · also Norman
Gulliver
“glutton”
Gulliver is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gulliver goes back to Old French goulafre, meaning “glutton.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Gulliver comes from Norman, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gulliver through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 5 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 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 837 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.
Gulliver’s family of names
In English usage, Gulliver as a surname has a related form in GULLIFORD.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Gulliver
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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