Giles (given name)

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Giles Given Name
Gender	Male
Meaning	Shield bearer
Origin	Greek
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Giles

Giles is a male given name.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 Famous people called Giles 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Etymology

Giles is the Medieval English form of the Old French saints' name Gide, an altered form of Latin Aegidius.

Some explain this as from Greek αιγιδιον (aigidion) meaning "kid, young goat".^[1]

Others believe that the Latin Aegidius was from aegis, a goatskin shield, and that the name refers to the youth who would carry the shield for a warrior.^[2]

[edit] Famous people called Giles

• Saint Giles, 7th-8th century Christian hermit saint
• Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
• Giles of Rome, 13th century archbishop
• Giles Blunt (born 1952), Canadian novelist and screenwriter
• Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), British author
• Giles Coren (born 1969), British journalist
• Giles Corey (1621-1692), victim of the Salem witch trials
• Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960), British architect

[edit] See also

• Giles (disambiguation)
• Giles (surname)
• All pages beginning with Giles

[edit] References

1. ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A Concise Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, 2001.
2. ^ See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/giles and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aegis