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The name Fitzgibbon is a boy's name meaning "son of Gilbert, son of the shining pledge".

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Fitzgibbon comes from the obsolete name Gibbon, a diminutive of Gib, which is a medieval short form of Gilbert. That makes Fitzgibbon a subtle way to honor an ancestral Gilbert — you could always call him by the more modern nickname Fitz.

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