Galère

surname · Latin script

Meaning: galley (kind of ship)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Galère is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 651K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.5M
  • CACanada≈1 in 11M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈46 people, est.

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 651K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

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 Galere in FR France, BE Belgium, CA Canada.

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)

galley (kind of ship)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galère 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 Galère is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈46 est.≈1 in 1.5M9Galere47
BE Belgium181 in 651K18Galere11
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Galere2

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

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

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Galere, Gale-Re, Galére

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Galère is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, An undesirable, difficult, or burdensome situation.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Galère 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 Galère mean, and where does it come from?
galley (kind of ship) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Galère have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 people named Galère in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galere.
Where is Galère most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galère is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 651 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Galère?
In Belgium, the national register counted 18 people named Galère in 2008, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.

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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, “Galère”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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