The galle Surname
galle Name Meaning and History
- (Gallé) nickname for a cheerful lively person, from a diminutive of Old French gail ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’.
- Breton: variant of Gall 1.
- German: variant of Gall, or nickname for an evil person, from Middle High German galle ‘bile’, ‘bitterness’, ‘falsehood’.
- Danish and Swedish: perhaps from an old byname Galle, believed to derive from Old Danish and Old Swedish galle ‘fault’, ‘defect’.
- Slovenian: Germanized spelling of Gale 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| galle |
 tkulaski
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| looking Italian Galle family members |
nanny33
| 0 |
| Pierre Galle b. 1768 France>LA | Deanie Humphrey | 4 |
| ms la galle's | wendy jacobs | 4 |
| SEEKING JAMES E GALLE - OR, NJ, NY, ELSEWHERE |
jlkinyon2
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| Lillian Galle |
mammaw01
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| Galle | WGF | 0 |
| Galle-Hermans from Belgium | Chris | 23 |
| any 1 from the U.K | Aaron Galle | 7 |
| Mrs. May E. STAPP GALLE d. 4 March 1947 - Missouri City, MO |
| 2 |
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