Galíndez
surname · Latin script
Galíndez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Galindo.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 6.1K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 7.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, 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 Galindez in VE Venezuela, AR Argentina, 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)patronymic from the personal name Galindo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galíndez is found
(measured from records)Galíndez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #301 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Galindez | 56 |
| CO Colombia | #801 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 3 | Galindez | 61 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Galindez | 43 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,037 | 1 in 11K | 4K | Galindez | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,350 | 1 in 246K | 1.4K | Galindez | 180 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #304 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Galindez | 17 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- García Galíndezb. 780Count of Aragon
- Jesús Galíndezb. 1915ESSpanish writer (1915-1956)
- Hernán Galíndezb. 1987ECEcuadorian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galíndez mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Galindo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galíndez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Galíndez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galindez. After it come Colombia, Philippines, Argentina and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Galíndez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 4,037 people named Galíndez, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Galíndez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Galíndez is the 301st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Galíndez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gal%C3%ADndezThe 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, “Galíndez” — the 301st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.