Gillibrand () is a surname. In 2016, around 676 people bore the name in Great Britain. At the time of Great Britain's 1881 census, 608 people bore the name, predominantly in Lancashire. A variant spelling is Gellibrand.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]; .
Etymology
The name comes into English from Anglo-Norman. It was borrowed into Anglo-Norman from the medieval Continental West Germanic name Giselbrand, whose first element, gisel, meant 'hostage' and whose second element, brand, meant 'firebrand', 'sword'.Max Gottschald, Deutsche Namenkunde, 3rd edn (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1973), p. 205.Wilfried Seibicke, Historisches deutsches Vornamenbuch (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996), I, p. 335.
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
See also Gellibrand (disambiguation)