Gilmore (surname) Gilmore (surname) Gilmore and Gillmore are surnames with several origins and meanings. The name can be of Irish (from Ulster) and Scottish Highland origin, Anglicised from the Gaelic "Mac Gille Mhoire" (Scottish Gaelic), "Mac Giolla Mhuire" (Ulster Irish Gaelic). The name was a patronymic name meaning "servant of (the Virgin) Mary". Another origin of the surname Gilmore is Irish, with two separate meanings. In County Armagh, the name is an Anglicised form of "Mac Giolla Mhura" "servant of St. Mura" (of Fahan, County Donegal). In County Sligo, "Gilmore" is an Anglicisation of "Mac Giolla Mhir" meaning "son of the spirited
Mac and Mc together example has been taken as representative of a possible paradigm. A book on filing rules from 1918 gives an example showing Mc and M' treated as abbreviations, i.e. for Mac, and ordered as if in the expanded version; and a similar book from 1922 makes the rule one of a number that apply also to St. (Saint) and Mrs. (Mistress). A 1938 book that is a comparative study of cataloguing in various British libraries regarded Mac + Mc + M' sorting as an example of achieved "standardisation" in alphabetisation. It gave further examples where, it argued, such standardisation would be