Last name: GALLAGHER
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Last name frequency
GALLAGHER : This last name is indexed 264,327 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GALLAGHER : Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair ‘descendant of Gallchobhar’ a personal name based on gall ‘foreign’ + cabhair ‘support’.
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