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Gildea

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Dhé ‘son of the servant of God’, from Dia ‘God’. The name originated with a monastic family in Donegal in the 11th century.

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