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galle Name Meaning and History

  1. (Gallé) nickname for a cheerful lively person, from a diminutive of Old French gail ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’.
  2. Breton: variant of Gall 1.
  3. German: variant of Gall, or nickname for an evil person, from Middle High German galle ‘bile’, ‘bitterness’, ‘falsehood’.
  4. Danish and Swedish: perhaps from an old byname Galle, believed to derive from Old Danish and Old Swedish galle ‘fault’, ‘defect’.
  5. Slovenian: Germanized spelling of Gale 5.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of galle Families in the US in 1920
Number of galle families
 38-74
 13-37
 1-12
 0
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