Galéra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of galérer
Galéra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K
- ARArgentina1 in 26K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,046 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galera in ES Spain, AR Argentina, PH Philippines 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)third-person singular past historic of galérer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galéra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #515 | 8,046 | 1 in 6.2K | 8K | Galera | 140 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Galera | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,160 | 1 in 98K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,743 | 1 in 26K | 1.7K | Galera | 53 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 72 | Galera | 61 |
| CR Costa Rica | #636 | 135 | 1 in 38K | 135 | Galera | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 53 | 1 in 64K | 53 | Galera | 6 |
8,046 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Galéra 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 Czech, galley (ship propelled primarily by oars)
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galéra mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of galérer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Galéra have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Galéra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galera.
- Where is Galéra most common?
- Galéra is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galéra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,046 people named Galéra, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Galéra compared with other names?
- In Spain, Galéra is the 515th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gal%C3%A9raThe 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, “Galéra” — the 515th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.