# Gilles (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gilles/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 359 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 359 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 8 | 3,144 |
| 1963 | 5 | 4,275 |
| 1964 | 7 | 3,402 |
| 1966 | 7 | 3,344 |
| 1967 | 9 | 2,852 |
| 1968 | 6 | 3,866 |
| 1970 | 5 | 4,991 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,603 |
| 1975 | 6 | 5,028 |
| 1976 | 5 | 5,912 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,139 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,605 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,911 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,103 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,685 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |

## People named Gilles

- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (1925–1995)
- Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver (1950–1982)
- Gilles Simon, French tennis player
- Gilles Binchois, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer (c. 1400–1460)
- Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (*1602 – †1675)
- Gilles Leroy, French writer
- Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician (1857-1904)
- Gilles Lellouche, French actor, film director and screenwriter
- Gilles Brassard, Canadian computer scientist
- Gilles Kepel, French political scientist and Arabist (born 1955)
- Gilles Grangier, Film director, screenwriter (1911–1996)
- Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.