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Gilmore

Boys' name

Servant lad + Mary mother of Jesus

Gilmore has been given to 753 babies in the U.S. since 1902. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1914, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Gilmore, 1994

1 in 743,000

Gilmore over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gilmore: meaning, origin, and history

Servant lad + Mary mother of Jesus

English

What Gilmore means

Gilmore means “servant lad + Mary mother of Jesus”, associated with gille and Moire.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Gilmore (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Gilmore is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Gilmore comes through Scottish Gaelic gille.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Gilmore is pronounced /ˈɡilmoɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 753 boys were recorded with the name Gilmore between 1902 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1914; its best national rank was #991 in 1914.

How common is Gilmore?

Gilmore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 743,000
5 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 386,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
515,144 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gilmore sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gilmore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gilmores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gilmore was born before 1927 — so the typical Gilmore is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
117
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1910s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Gilmore rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1914 (32)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#991
1914

Spellings of Gilmore

Gilmore is not the most common spelling — Elmore is, with 55.6% against Gilmore's 10.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gilmore is used

Across 1910–2025, Gilmore was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,082,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gilmore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gilmore around the world

Where Gilmore ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1944–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gilmore by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#991
1914
Peak year
1914
32 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
753
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gilmore

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gilmore

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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