Gall

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gall is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Honduras it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Stranger, foreigner’; or from a medieval personal name from Latin Gallus.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras1 in 858◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.1K
  • AUAustralia1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈332K ●

across 7 countries

#600 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
502 ●

3.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 676 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

GailLatin · English●2.8M records
גיילHebrew · Hebrew●3K records
가일Hangul · Korean●74 records
গেইলBengali · Bangla●2 records
ΓκαελGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gail in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 10 more, Gael in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, FR France and 8 more, גייל in IL Israel and Gal in NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘Stranger, foreigner’; or from a medieval personal name from Latin Gallus.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gall is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#366270,226130K rec.—7.3KGael96
GB United Kingdom#184193,275172K rec.—3Gail201
US United States#206161,6392.3M rec.1 in 2.1K162KGail502
BR Brazil#596110,946△2.5K rec.1 in 1.9K111KGael117
AU Australia#24394,95176K rec.—78Gail188
MX Mexico#39090,82027K rec.——Gael126
CA Canada#21765,33263K rec.—3Gail179
PE Peru#60845,9694.4K rec.—10KGael31
FR France#38527,56596K rec.1 in 2.5K28KGael329
HN Honduras#4021,34348 rec.—7.1KGael10
DE Germany—18,60219K rec.—1Gail125
IT Italy#43816,12818K rec.—28Gail71

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Languages●

  • French97K43%
  • English89K40%
  • German11K5%
  • Spanish6.4K3%
  • Portuguese3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French97,10143%
English89,42740%
German10,8605%
Spanish6,3553%
Portuguese2,9891%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gall is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname102K records spelled Gall8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Italian, Catalan

    Also written Gàll, Gal︠l, Gáll, Gãll

  • Spanish surname11K records spelled Gall7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pizi, Gáll

  • a separate surname3.3K records spelled Gall3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Gáll, Gàll

  • Polish surname3.1K records spelled Gall13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Hungary, United States

    Languages: Polish, Hungarian, Czech

    Also written Gáll, Zluc, Žluč, Gàll, Pizi

  • Danish surname820 records spelled Gall7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Gáll

  • Croatian surname495 records spelled Gall11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Галл, Gáll

  • Romanian surname489 records spelled Gall2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Spain

    Also written Gáll

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gall is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Perhaps ‘rooster’. St Gall (c. 550–640), follower of St Columbanus; namesake of Sankt-Gallen in Switzerland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, From Gaelic gall ‘stranger, foreigner, non-Gael’; recorded in Perth by 1334.

    as a nameScottish Surnames

  • In English, Celtic for "foreigner, stranger"; first attested Walter Galle c1170 Gilb (L). Found in England, especially Welsh border counties and Lincolnshire.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Origine celtique, signifie « bravoure ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0246820102015202020257 · 2014

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Gall in SURS — resident population given names, Slovenia, 2008–2025
Yearrecords
20085
20095
20105
20115
20126
20136
20147
20157
20167
20177
20187
20197
20207
20217
20227
20237
20247
20257

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Franz Joseph Gall, b. 1758Leonhard Gall, b. 1884Robert Gall, b. 1918Sandy Gall, b. 1927Joseph G. Gall, b. 1928Lydia Galle, b. 1934Lothar Gall, b. 1936France Gall, b. 1947Brendan Gall, b. 1978Ellie Gall, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Gall
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.7K#3,681
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.1K#3,568
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.2K#4,202
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#7,085
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024469#2,781
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—300—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007219#9,501
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—217#15,587
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—217#15,546
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961217—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951211—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921210—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gall?
We estimate roughly 332 thousand people bear Gall (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Gall have the most bearers?
Gall is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled gael.
Where is Gall most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gall is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 676 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Gall compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gall is the 366th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Gall mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Stranger, foreigner’; or from a medieval personal name from Latin Gallus.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gall” — the 366th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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