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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name for someone from the village of Galki in eastern Belarus.
  • Russian : patronymic from Galka, a nickname meaning ‘jackdaw’, used to denote a thievish or talkative person.

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