as a Last Name
- 9,325
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Gulley
Meaning & Origins
English: descriptive nickname for a giant or a large man, from Middle English golias ‘giant’, from the Hebrew personal name Golyat Goliath. In the Bible Goliath was the champion of the Philistines, who stood ‘six cubits and a span’; he was defeated in single combat by the shepherd boy David (I Samuel 17), who killed him with a stone from his sling. There is unlikely to be any connection with the English vocabulary word gully (from Old French goulet ‘neck of a bottle’), which is not attested in this sense before the 17th century.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,325
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Gulley per capita
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