Gall
At the 2020 census, 8,167 Americans bore the surname Gall — 4,202nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 8,167
- Rank
- 4,202nd
- How common
- 1 in 36,600
- Per 100,000
- 2.7
Where the name comes from
As an English, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish surname, of cel origin, from Gall (“foreigner”). This is in turn from Latin Gallus, which has borrowings (many of which are surnames) in several European languages, such as Czech Havel, Polish Gawel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gall described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gall
- France Gall (1947–2018)French singer
- Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828)neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain
- Saint Gall (550–645)Irish disciple and saint
- Felix Gall (born 1998)Austrian cyclist
- Romain Gall (born 1995)American soccer player
- Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959)French mathematician
- Robert Le Gall (born 1946)French Catholic archbishop
- Ildikó Pelczné Gáll (born 1962)Member of the National Assembly and Member of the European Parliament
People named Gall with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gall
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.