Galiński
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡaliɲski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galiński is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from Galirice in northeastern Poland, Galinka in Ukraine, or Galiniai in Lithuania.
- PLPoland1 in 16K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 451K
- CACanada≈1 in 606K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
2,419 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galinski in PL Poland, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 2 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)habitational name for someone from Galirice in northeastern Poland, Galinka in Ukraine, or Galiniai in Lithuania.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galiński 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,419 | 1 in 16K | 2.4K | Galinski | 48 |
| US United States | 486 | 1 in 684K | 486 | Galinski | 38 |
| BR Brazil | 282 | 1 in 751K | 282 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 685K | — | Galinski | 20 |
| FR France | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 825K | 8 | Galiński | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 606K | — | Galinski | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | Galinski | 3 |
2,419 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling galiński. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Adam Galińskib. 1866PLPolish officer
- Franciszek Galińskib. 1874PLPolish journalist, poet and writer (1871-1942)
- Kazimierz Galińskib. 1894PLPolish officer
- Tadeusz Galińskib. 1914PLPolish journalist
- Marek Galińskib. 1951PLOlympic wrestler
- Piotr Galińskib. 1959PLPolish dancer and choreographer
- Cezary Galińskib. 1967PLPolish engineer
- Marek Galińskib. 1974PLPolish cyclist
- Grzegorz GalinskiPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1447-558X
- Jacek GalińskiPLPolish writer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.4K | #1,061 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #114,507 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galiński mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Galirice in northeastern Poland, Galinka in Ukraine, or Galiniai in Lithuania. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Galiński?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaliɲski/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Galiński have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Galiński, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galinski.
- Where is Galiński most common?
- Galiński is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galiński?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,419 people named Galiński in 2026, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gali%C5%84skiThe 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, “Galiński”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.