Gilford. Buy JPG Image » The Anglo-Saxon name Gilford comes from when the family resided in the village of Guildford, which was in the county of Surrey. The surname was originally derived from the Old English word guilford which denoted the "ford where the marigolds grew."
Gill may be a surname or given name, derived from a number of unrelated sources; ... as a surname, an anglicization of the Scottish or Irish patronymic McGill (or Mac Gille, Mac An Ghoill and variants) in Hebrew, a masculine given name or byname meaning "joy, gladness" (feminine form Gilla)
The difficulty of pronouncing the name for his Central Asian Turco-Mongol army may have been responsible for the greater popularity of his nickname Babur, also variously spelled Baber, Babar, and Bābor. The name is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr, meaning "tiger".
The name Babar is a Muslim baby name. In Muslim the meaning of the name Babar is: Lion. King of Jungle.
