Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : From Gaul

Boy name variations

Galway

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Gallowai

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.