as a Last Name
- 1,820
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Galle
Meaning & Origins
French: 1. (Gallé) nickname for a cheerful lively person, from a diminutive of Old French gail ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’. 2. Breton: variant of Gall 1. 3. German: variant of Gall, or nickname for an evil person, from Middle High German galle ‘bile’, ‘bitterness’, ‘falsehood’. 4. Danish and Swedish: perhaps from an old byname Galle, believed to derive from Old Danish and Old Swedish galle ‘fault’, ‘defect’. 5. Slovenian: Germanized spelling of Gale 5.
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- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,820
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Galle per capita
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