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Gilbert

/ˈɡɪlbɚt/ · name

Meaning

  1. A city in Story County, Iowa.
  2. A small town in Searcy County, Arkansas.
  3. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  4. A town in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  5. A city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
  6. The CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
  7. A number of places in the United States:
  8. A village in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
  9. A surname.

Etymology / origin

From Old French Gislebert, from Proto-Germanic *Gīslaberhtaz, from *gīslaz (“pledge”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”).

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