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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Gerlach.
  • Dutch : possibly also a nickname from galasse ‘cobblestone’ or ‘gall stone’.
  • Polish : variant of Galas.
  • Eastern German : variant of Gall 2, with the Slavic suffix -as.

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