Galíndo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡalindo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galíndo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Said to derive from alliances between Galindians and the Visigoths on the latter's marches to Spain; see Galindians, a name of Baltic origin.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.2K
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, 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 Galindo in US United States, PE Peru, CO Colombia and 4 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)
Said to derive from alliances between Galindians and the Visigoths on the latter's marches to Spain; see Galindians, a name of Baltic origin. Other theories give the name a Germanic origin, joining the widely used particle *gaizaz, meaning "spear" (which Gothic renders *Gais, *Gair), and the particle *win, meaning "friend".
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galíndo 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 | #181 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 28 | Galindo | 155 |
| US United States | — | 36,429 | 1 in 9.1K | 36K | Galindo | 382 |
| ES Spain | #203 | 21,760 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Galindo | 159 |
| BR Brazil | #528 | 17,148 | 1 in 12K | 17K | Galindo | 129 |
| PE Peru | #339 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Galindo | 82 |
| GT Guatemala | #51 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Galindo | 75 |
| HN Honduras | #133 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Galindo | 48 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galíndo mean, and where does it come from?
- Said to derive from alliances between Galindians and the Visigoths on the latter's marches to Spain; see Galindians, a name of Baltic origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Galíndo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡalindo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Galíndo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Galíndo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galindo.
- How common is the name Galíndo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,429 people named Galíndo in 2010, about 1 in 9.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Galíndo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Galíndo is the 181st 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/gal%C3%ADndoThe 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, “Galíndo” — the 181st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.