Italian and Spanish: nickname from gallo ‘rooster’
(Latin gallus), given originally to a person with some of the
attributes associated with a rooster, as for example a powerful voice
or sexual prowess.Italian: from the medieval personal name
Gallo (see Gall 2).Italian and Greek
(Gallos): ethnic name for someone from France or Gaul (Latin
Gallus).Italian: habitational name from any of
numerous places named with this word, especially in southern Italy, as
for example Gallo Matese in Caserta province.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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