Gáleano
surname · Latin script
Gáleano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 20th most common surname. Gáleano is also written Галеано in Cyrillic.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 130(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 700
- COColombia≈1 in 980
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gáleano itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gáleano in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galeano in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, CO Colombia and 3 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)do lat. gàlea, elmo; indica homem armado para a batalha
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gáleano is found
(measured from records)Gáleano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #171 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 978 | 22 | Galeano | 135 |
| PY Paraguay | #20 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 134 | — | Galeano | 67 |
| AR Argentina | #173 | 44,442 | 1 in 1K | 44K | Galeano | 101 |
| NI Nicaragua | #91 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Galeano | 43 |
| HN Honduras | #174 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Galeano | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | #201 | 3,288 | 1 in 1K | 3.3K | Galeano | 33 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gáleano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Gáleano in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galeano. After it come Paraguay, Argentina, Nicaragua and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gáleano?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 44,442 people named Gáleano, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gáleano compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Gáleano is the 171st most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A1leanoThe 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, “Gáleano” — ranked 94th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.