as a Last Name
- 8,572
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Galbraith
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: ethnic name for someone descended from a tribe of Britons living in Scotland, from Gaelic gall ‘stranger’ (see Gall) + Breathnach ‘Briton’ (i.e. ‘British foreigner’). These were either survivors of the British peoples who lived in Scotland before the Gaelic invasions from Ireland in the 5th century (in particular the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons, who survived as a distinctive ethnic group until about the 14th century), or others who had perhaps migrated northwestwards at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,572
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Galbraith per capita
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