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gallagher Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair ‘descendant of Gallchobhar’, a personal name from the elements gall ‘strange’, ‘foreign’ + cabhair ‘help’, ‘support’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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gallagher Family Facts

Distribution of gallagher Families in the US in 1920
Number of gallagher families
 1393-2783
 465-1392		 1-464
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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