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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Gałecki) : habitational name from any of various places named Gałki, probably from gałka ‘knob’. These are found in the voivodeships of Radom, Siedlce, and Sieradz; also (during the Middle Ages) in the southern borderland of Poland, now part of Ukraine.

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