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gull Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Middle English gulle ‘gull’ or gul(le) (Old Norse gulr) ‘yellow’, ‘pale’ (of hair or complexion).
  2. Swiss German: nickname for an irascible or unreliable person, from an Alemannic form of Latin gallus ‘rooster’. See also Guell.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gull Families in the US in 1920
Number of gull families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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