The Galo Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Search old registers for Galo and you will soon meet Gallo too. The family name meaning is “Rooster”, the same as for Gallo.

• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Galo with 1,632 bearers, at rank 17,323. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 73% of the total. Spanish statistics put 722 people with Galo in first position and 679 in second.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Galo drops the “l” of Gallo, a shortening that clerks often made.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Galo, so the heraldry linked to Gallo is a starting point, not an automatic right. Research your Galo family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.