Galen

See also: galen and galèn

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From Middle English Galen, from Latin Galēnus, from Ancient Greek Γαληνός (Galēnós), from γαλήνη (galḗnē, “calm, tranquillity”).^[1]

Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher (129 – c. 216 CE).
A male given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly American usage.

Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher

Galen (plural Galens)

A physician.
- 1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Weston Hatfield, […], →OCLC, page [4], column 5:
  It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—[…]
- 1858, Anthony Trollope, “When Greek Meets Greek Then Comes the Tug of War”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 242:
  It was well known at Barchester, and very well known to Dr. Fillgrave, […] the Barchester Galen, that the great railway contractor was ill.

Galen (plural Galens)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Galen is the 35671^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 630 individuals. Galen is most common among White (92.38%) individuals.

^ “Galen, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Galen”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

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