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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire named Gailey, from Old English gagel ‘bog-myrtle’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
  • In some instances, an altered spelling of South German Gailer (variant of Geiler) or of Swiss Gälli (see Gall).

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