Gilpatrick: Surname History and Family Crest

In parish registers, Gilpatrick often stands in for Kilpatrick. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Church of St Patrick”.

• 1,068 Americans were listed as Gilpatrick in the 2010 census.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• Spelled with “g” instead of “k”, Gilpatrick shows how the same name was heard and written differently.

Arms associated with the name

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