Canyon vs Gill

Canyon

name
  • A city, the county seat of Randall County, Texas, United States. 

  • A ghost town in Whitman County, Washington, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Contra Costa County and Alameda County, California, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Kenora district, in north-western Ontario, Canada. 

  • An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Algoma district, in north-eastern Ontario, Canada. 

  • A ghost town and former gold mining town in El Dorado County, California, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. 

Gill

name
  • An unincorporated community in Texas. 

  • An unincorporated community in Colorado; named for early landowner William H. Gill. 

  • A diminutive of the female given name Gillian, variant of Jill. 

  • An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for an early postmaster. 

  • A Scottish and Northern English habitational surname from Old Norse for someone who lived near a gill. 

  • A Scottish and Irish surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], an alternate anglicization of Mac an Ghoill (McGill). 

  • A ghost town in South Dakota; named for early postmaster Carl M. Gilberg. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage. 

  • A diminutive of the male given names Giles, Julian, or William, of medieval usage. 

  • A town in Massachusetts; named for Massachusetts politician Moses Gill. 

  • A surname from Punjabi from ਗਿੱਲ (gilla). 

noun
  • Someone connected with Gillingham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. 

How often have the words Canyon and Gill occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )