Gallégos

surname · Latin script

Gallégos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 5th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From gallegos, plural of gallego (“Galician”).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.2K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K

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.

United States (measured from records)

68,373 people, 2010

Sources
386 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 124 (inferred from the name graph)

Guinea-Bissau, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gallegos in US United States, PE Peru, CL Chile 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)

From gallegos, plural of gallego (“Galician”).

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gallégos 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.

Where Gallégos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—68,3731 in 4.9K68KGallegos386
PE Peru#308≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Gallegos79
GW Guinea-Bissau#5≈16,000 est.≈1 in 124—Gallegos3
CL Chile#314≈15,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K1Gallegos108
EC Ecuador#28613,8741 in 1.2K14KGallegos67
SV El Salvador#339≈1,800 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Gallegos38

68,373 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gallégos is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Gallegos

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gallégos under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gallégos mean, and where does it come from?
From gallegos, plural of gallego (“Galician”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
In which country does Gallégos have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Gallégos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gallegos.
How common is the name Gallégos?
In the United States, the national register counted 68,373 people named Gallégos in 2010, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Gallégos compared with other names?
In Guinea-Bissau, Gallégos is the 5th most common surname of 221 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gallégos” — the 5th most common surname in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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