Galir is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 5 characters long in length.
Variant of Garland. Descendant of Gaerland meaning "spear, land"; dweller at the triangular field; dweller at the sign of the garland.
The variation of the Garland. A local surname. John de Garlande, author of the Dictionarius, flourished in the XII. and XIII. century. Though a professor at Paris, he was an Englishman by birth. Gerland, the first mathematical writer in England after the Conquest, was living in 1086, but whether he was of English birth is uncertain. Garlond, Garland, and Gerlaundes occur in the Hundred Rolls, without prefix.
The family have long possessed lands in Essex, Surrey, Lincolnshire, and Sussex. James Garland, Esq., who was born in 1768, gave to his daughter and heiress "a property at Penhurst, in the last named county, which was granted to the family by King John, and of which the original grant is the only title deed." B.L.G.