Galletly is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Galletly
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Scotland
Meaning:

Surname Galletly is the variant form of Gellatly. Variant of Golightly meaning " a messener or runner who was fleet of foot".

Galletly is the variation of the Gately. One who came from Gately, i.e., clearing where goats were kept, in Norfolk.

Variant of Golightly meaning " a messener or runner who was fleet of foot".

The variant of the Golightly. A messenger or runner who was fleet of foot.

Is variant form of Golightly. Has nothing to do, with lightness of foot. The name has many forms, to none of which a meaning can well be attached; but from the termination it is probably local.

How popular is Galletly?

Galletly is common in Australia, United States, England, Scotland, New Zealand.

Galletly is ranked 330219 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Galletly bearers increased by 0.66 per cent in 2010 US census to 152 since 2000, the surname slipped by 6300 spots and ranked at 115034. The last name was found in merely 5 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 92.11 98.68
Others 3.95 0
Galletly is quite rare family name, few people in Australia and New Zealand have the last name. Around 1121 person has been found who wears Galletly as their family name. Galletly is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundreds of Galletly:
11,341 Australia269
98,110 United States254
19,058 England244
3,361 Scotland157
5,420 New Zealand145
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
107,691 Canada23
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
283,807 Germany8
101,176 Netherlands6

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