as a Last Name
- 32,536
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Galloway
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: regional name from Galloway in southwestern Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
| 925th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 32,536
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Galloway per capita
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