Galeš
surname · Latin script
Galeš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,169 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham; London. relationship name from the personal name Gale(s) (nominative case-form of Old French Galon), central French form of Wale(s) (see Wales ).
- USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 179K
- DKDenmark1 in 267K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
4,169 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gales in US United States.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Durham; London. relationship name from the personal name Gale(s) (nominative case-form of Old French Galon), central French form of Wale(s) (see Wales ).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galeš is found
(measured from records)Galeš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,169 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Gales | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 1,182 | 1 in 179K | 1.2K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 165 | 1 in 276K | 165 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 81 | 1 in 617K | 81 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 49 | 1 in 353K | 49 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
4,169 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galeš mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Durham; London. relationship name from the personal name Gale(s) (nominative case-form of Old French Galon), central French form of Wale(s) (see Wales ). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galeš?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Galeš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gales. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Galeš most common?
- Galeš is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galeš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,169 people named Galeš in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gale%C5%A1The 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, “Galeš” — ranked 7937th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.