Gallant Last Name Facts and Heraldry

Your Gallant ancestor may well appear as Galante in earlier records. At root, the name means “The gay, polite, brave person; one in gay or fine attire”.

• According to the 2010 US Census, the Gallant surname had 9,051 bearers. That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames. 541 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Gallant name at birth.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Before spelling was fixed, Galante was also written Gallant.

Family crest and blazon

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Galante surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon. Want more than a summary? See the Gallant family name pack.