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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Galician : habitational name from any of various places in Galicia called Cales, in Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra provinces.
  • French : habitational name, a derivative of pre-Latin kal ‘rock’, from either of two places so called, in Lot and Dordogne.

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