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Galliano is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of 2020, its population was 7,100. It is portion of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.

The Place was named by the late postmaster Alzec Autin, who chose the name “Galliano” in tribute of an indigenous settler in the area formerly known as Côte Cheramie. Signor Antoine Galliano contracted in the vicinity in the late 1700s and had a large farm and a citrus tree orchard. He came from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the vicinity of Naples, Italy, where he was in the encouragement of the King of Spain.

A popular local legend is that his wife, Julia, had no last make known and was related closely to the King of Spain. Antoine Galliano or Galiano (Spanish spelling) had fallen in adore with a woman of noble birth – probably a princess, since he was in the King’s Guard. He and his wife were sent to Louisiana (New Spain) and approved in the area known now as Galliano. His descendants yet live in the area, and the state Galliano is spelled in the Italian style, but some descendants spell it Galiano in the Spanish tradition.