Gallaher is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Gallaher
No. of characters: 8
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Gallaher

How popular is Gallaher?

Gallaher is common in United States.

Gallaher is ranked 74425 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Gallaher bearers increased by 3.500986 per cent in 2010 US census to 4198 since 2000, the surname slipped by 325 spots and ranked at 7885. The last name was found in around 14 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.73 92.48
Black 3.48 2.86
Hispanic or Latino 1.83 1.41
Others 1.72 1.65
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.74 1.01
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5 0.59
Gallaher is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Northern Ireland is ahead in terms of density. Around 5986 people have been found who wears Gallaher as their family name. Gallaher is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
318,252 Ukraine6
7,031 China6
34,572 Israel2
118,441 Germany2
134,667 Zimbabwe1
277,603 France1
16,640 Hong Kong1
56,169 Mexico1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
169,904 Brazil1
29,046 Japan1
3,071 Jersey1
40,340 Malaysia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
7,570 Ireland38
18,843 Chile36
14,963 Scotland26
28,338 Norway20
442,509 Russia12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
56,973 South Africa73
9,649 New Zealand71
3,129 Northern Ireland60
Countries with hundreds of Gallaher:
9,280 Australia303
20,671 England253
14,941 Canada250
Countries with thousands of Gallaher:
7,811 United States4,819
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Thomas Gallaher worked as child and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 6 years old embarked for Pennsylvania from Liverpool on Arabella and arrived on May 14, 1846. 20 years old Thomas Gallaher, Spinster Nancy Gallaher, Catharine Gallaher, aged 20, 20 years old Pattk. Gallaher, Maid Mary Gallaher, Mary Gallaher, aged 6, Ann Gallaher (Born at sea) Infant, 25 years old Owen Gallaher, and 165 other Gallaher around 57.14% of whom were workman while others worked as spinster and servant, farmer, joiner, smith, seamstress migrated to US.

Gallaher Namesakes

  • Dave Gallaher, Soccer player
  • David Gallaher, Writer
  • David Gallaher, Writer
  • Pat Gallaher, from 0 action flick American Vigilante, who characterized the Colonel Fowler.
  • In 0 horror movie, Beware the Shadow Man, Sean Gallaher played Thomas Miles.

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