Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Courageous
Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for a cheerful or high-spirited person, from Old French, Middle English galant ‘bold’, ‘dashing’, ‘lively’. The meanings ‘gallant’ and ‘attentive to women’ are further developments, which may lie behind some examples of the surname.
- French : variant spelling of Galant, cognate with 1.