Frequency: (1673)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Scottish and Irish: variant of Gall 1.
2. German: nickname for a unmannered person, from Middle Low German gūl ‘horse’, ‘workhorse’, ‘stallion’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
