as a Last Name
- 77,924
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gallagher
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair ‘descendant of Gallchobhar’, a personal name from the elements gall ‘strange’, ‘foreign’ + cabhair ‘help’, ‘support’.
| 415th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 77,924
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Gallagher per capita
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