Gallie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Strangers’/‘non-Gaels’; Gaelic gallaich in Sutherland or gallda in the south-west

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

/ɡəɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gallie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 206K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 55K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000 people, est.

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘Strangers’/‘non-Gaels’; Gaelic gallaich in Sutherland or gallda in the south-west. Patrick Gallie noted in Irvine, 1426.

Sources 1

  • Scottish Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gallie 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 Gallie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈1,000 est.≈1 in 55K—Gallie28
GB United Kingdom≈320 est.≈1 in 206KlistedGallie102
US United States1951 in 1.7M196Gallie118
CA Canada≈180 est.≈1 in 205K—Gallie67
AU Australia≈99 est.≈1 in 258K—Gallie39
NZ New Zealand≈38 est.≈1 in 129K—Gallie23

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the scottish-surnames-ross-1994 register. 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)

Gallie is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Gallié, Galliè

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gallié, Galliè

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gallié

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Gallié

32 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(measured from records)

Gallie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • At both ends of the country, this surname meant ‘strangers’, ‘non-Gaels’ – Gaelic gallaich in Sutherland for the Norse/Scots-speaking Caithnessians; gallda in the south-west for Norse or Northumbrian speakers. Patrick Gallie is noted in Irvine, 1426.

    as a nameScottish Surnames

  • In ang, the Gauls

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

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000William Gallie, b. 1882John Gallie, b. 1899Walter Bryce Gallie, b. 1912Menna Gallie, b. 1919Thomas Muir Gallie, Jr., b. 1925Phil Gallie, b. 1939Duncan Gallie, b. 1950Daniel R. Gallie, b. 1957Colin Gallie, b. 1971

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Gallie,
InformalHi Gallie,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Gallie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000196#88,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010195#93,921
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020183#104,276
GB United KingdomScottish Surnames (Ross, 1994)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Gallie come from?
‘Strangers’/‘non-Gaels’; Gaelic gallaich in Sutherland or gallda in the south-west. Patrick Gallie noted in Irvine, 1426. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
How do you pronounce Gallie?
A machine transcription gives /ɡəɫi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Gallie mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Strangers’/‘non-Gaels’; Gaelic gallaich in Sutherland or gallda in the south-west.
In which country does Gallie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Gallie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gallie.
How common is the name Gallie?
In the United States, the national register counted 195 people named Gallie in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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.

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, “Gallie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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