Galáz

surname · Latin script

Galáz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. Recorded meaning: possibly from a personal name of literary origin. Compare Galasso.

  • CLChile≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CUCuba≈1 in 10Kfew records
  • MXMexico≈1 in 25K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Record sources
145 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Galaz in CL Chile, MX Mexico, US United States and 2 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)

possibly from a personal name of literary origin. Compare Galasso.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Galáz is found

(measured from records)

Galáz 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.

Where Galáz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile#278≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Galaz93
MX Mexico—≈5,200 est.≈1 in 25K57Galaz105
US United States—1,5861 in 210K1.6KGalaz145
CU Cuba#347≈1,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Galaz3
AR Argentina—5491 in 83K549Galaz40
NO Norway—481 in 114K48—2

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Galáz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Galaz, Galåz

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Galáz under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Galáz mean, and where does it come from?
possibly from a personal name of literary origin. Compare Galasso. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Galáz?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Galáz in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galaz. After it come Mexico, United States, Cuba and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Galáz?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,586 people named Galáz in 2010, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
How common is Galáz compared with other names?
In Chile, Galáz is the 278th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Galáz” — the 278th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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