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GILES

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: JIELZ, JIE-əlz   [key]

From the Late Latin name Aegidius, which is derived from Greek αιγιδιον (aigidion) meaning "young goat". Saint Giles was an 8th-century miracle worker from Greece who is regarded as the patron saint of the crippled. In Old French the name Aegidius became Gidie and then Gilles, at which point it was imported to England.
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