Ģalal
surname · Latin script
Ģalal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Derived from the Hebrew root 'galal' (גָּלַל), meaning 'to roll' or 'roll away'. [1, 5, 7] Interpretations of the name include 'rolling', 'influential', or 'great'. [3, 4, 5, 11].
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 7.2Kfew records
- QAQatar≈1 in 9.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galal in EG Egypt, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derived from the Hebrew root 'galal' (גָּלַל), meaning 'to roll' or 'roll away'. [1, 5, 7] Interpretations of the name include 'rolling', 'influential', or 'great'. [3, 4, 5, 11]
Cited for this meaning 2
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ģalal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #55 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Galal | 151 |
| SD Sudan | #252 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Galal | 28 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Galal | 36 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #955 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Galal | 59 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 2 | — | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | #613 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Galal | 25 |
| QA Qatar | #737 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Galal | 24 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 258 | Galal | 149 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ģalal mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from the Hebrew root 'galal' (גָּלַל), meaning 'to roll' or 'roll away'. [1, 5, 7] Interpretations of the name include 'rolling', 'influential', or 'great'. [3, 4, 5, 11] Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Ģalal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Ģalal in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galal.
- How common is the name Ģalal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Ģalal in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Ģalal compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Ģalal is the 55th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%A3alalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ģalal” — the 55th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.