Gall

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: ‘Stranger, foreigner’; or from a medieval personal name from Latin Gallus

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

Gall is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1Kas Gail(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.1Kas Gail
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.1Kas Gail

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gall itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

165,125 named Gail, 2020

#460 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
553 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 676 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia, as Gal

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GailLatin(measured from records)
גיילHebrew(measured from records)
가일Hangul(measured from records)
গেইলBengali(measured from records)
ΓκαελGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gail in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Gael in BR Brazil.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘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 9 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gall is read(measured from records)

Gall is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English48%

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

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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

    as a nameIrish first names

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

    as a nameScottish Surnames

    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

    Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

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

  • French37%

    Origine celtique, signifie « bravoure ».

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gall counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gall is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#223165,125as Gail1 in 2K162KGail553
BR Brazil—110,946as Gael1 in 1.9K111KGael56
GB United Kingdom#205≈59,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K3Gail257
CA Canada#198≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K3Gail241
EG Egypt—≈28,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Gail18
IE Ireland#148≈4,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Gail62
NZ New Zealand#176≈4,300 est.≈1 in 1.1K15Gail110
SI Slovenia—3,109as Gal1 in 6763.2K—15

165,125 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • French surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Gàll, Gáll, Gal︠l, Gãll

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pizi, Gáll

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gáll, Gàll

  • Hungarian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Hungarian, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Gáll, Gàll, Žluč, Pizi, Zluc

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Gáll

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Галл, Gáll

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

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

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 46 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
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20257#3,113
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—7#6,377
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20247#3,075
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20237#3,004
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20227#2,928
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20217#2,922
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20207#2,868
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20197#2,795

Reference works 9

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gall mean, and where does it come from?
‘Stranger, foreigner’; or from a medieval personal name from Latin Gallus. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Gall?
In the etymology graph, Gallo, Gal and Gallus are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gall have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 165 thousand people named Gail, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gall most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Gall itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Slovenia's: the national register counts about 1 in 676 people named Gal.
How common is the name Gall?
In the United States, the national register counted 165,125 people named Gail in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Gall compared with other names?
In the United States, Gall is the 223rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gall” — the 223rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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