Name: Giles
Gender: Male
Usage: Giles, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Giles are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Giles is: Shield, Servant.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Giles is ranked on the 5,293rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 56700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Giles has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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The name day of Giles is 1 September.
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History and Origin
Giles is a masculine given name.
Giles [dʒaɪlz] is the Medieval English form of the Old French saints' name Giles, an altered form of Latin Aegidius. The Modern French form is Gilles.
English: much altered version of the Late Latin name Aegidius, from Greek Aegidios (a derivative of aigidion kid, young goat). The name was very popular in the Middle Ages, as the result of the fame of the 8th-century St Giles. According to tradition, he was an Athenian citizen who fled to Provence because he could not cope with the fame and adulation caused by his power to work miracles, in particular by healing the lame and crippled. He is the patron saint of cripples.
Variant: Gyles.
Cognates: French: Gilles. Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese: Gil. Danish, Dutch: Gillis. Italian: Egidio. German: Ägid(ius). Polish: Egidiusz, Idzi. Hungarian: Egyed.
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