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Galloway
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Origin Of The Surname Galloway
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Meaning Of The Surname Galloway
From the Town by the Road of the Strangers
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Interesting
Facts About
Galloway
Galloway is a locational surname of Scottish or Gaelic origin. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic ‘gall’ meaning stranger combined with ‘weg’ to mean ‘road of the strangers’. |
Galloway Statistics
Galloway is the number 1250 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,099 share the surname Galloway in the UK.
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