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I always believed this was pronounced like Guy-L's! It gives me a very old western kinda vibe.
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Gotta be one of the goofiest Western names out there. Maybe since nothing sounds like it at all.
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Giles Corey was accused of witchcraft and stoned to death during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
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Possibly derived from Latin "aegis", meaning "shield, defense", which was in turn derived from a Greek word meaning "goat skin", referring to shields made of the material. In this case, the name could be interpreted as "protection" or "protecting".
A case has also been made for the original root word being Greek "gylios", a kind of military bag for carrying supplies, but this is extremely unlikely.
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A case has also been made for the original root word being Greek "gylios", a kind of military bag for carrying supplies, but this is extremely unlikely.
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Far better to be a young goat than an old goat! In spite of the meaning I like the name Giles (pronounced with the J sound). It is a good solid English name.
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I'm from the USA and this name reminds me of the consummate English gentleman. I like it, but don't know if it would work well for a boy here.
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There are two towns in England named Gilesgate. One is pronounced with a "j" sound and the other is pronounced with a hard "g." The "j" sound seems to be correct, but that doesn't change the fact that the hard "g" exists in the vernacular.
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The name Giles was given to 20 boys born in the US in 2015.
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I love Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I would never name a son Giles because he would be teased and called Giles Goat-Boy after the famous book by John Barth.
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I was given the name and yet I was not picked on. I do understand why completely and I'm just stating that it depends on the people who know your son (if he were to have the name) and if they know the meaning of it.
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Fictional bearer: In the YA novel "Incarceron", the main character Finn thinks he's the long-lost Prince Giles (I haven't read the sequel yet so I don't know how this ends).
Pronounced with a J sound.
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Pronounced with a J sound.
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I always thought it was pronounced with a hard g... I like that pronunciation better personally.
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Giles Corey was the one guy in the Salem witch trials who wasn't hung. He got squished to death by rocks for not pleading guilty or not guilty.
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In Polish this name is quite rare, but it does appear - either in a Greek-influenced form of "Egidiusz", or shortened to "Idzi".
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There is a novelist named Giles Blunt.
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The name of one of the characters in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders', portrayed in the recent film by Rufus Sewell.
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Professor Tolkien used Giles to name the main character in his story 'Farmer Giles of Ham'. Giles is but the 'vulgar' form of the name; the farmer's full name was Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo.
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Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
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Rupert Giles is a character on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" T.V. show. He's played by Anthony Stewart Head.
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