Gallardo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’ -i- hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gallardo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Chile it is the 48th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 342(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 740
- ESSpain1 in 1.1K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #784 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)
61,440 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’ -i- hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gallardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #109 | 61,440 | 1 in 740 | 61K | Gallardo | 121 |
| CL Chile | #48 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 342 | 1 | Gallardo | 132 |
| ES Spain | #90 | 44,993 | 1 in 1.1K | 45K | Gallardo | 201 |
| PH Philippines | #244 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Gallardo | 90 |
| US United States | — | 31,909 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Gallardo | 375 |
| VE Venezuela | #208 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Gallardo | 63 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Gallardo | 50 |
61,440 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gallardo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, gallant, debonair, brave, strapping, dashing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, var. regional de Gagliardo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Laguna, Cavite and Rizal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a surname from Spanish, common in Cebu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, gallant, debonair, brave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ricardo Alegríab. 1921USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican scholar, anthropologist, archeologist (1921-2011)
- Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardob. 1946MXMexican drug lord
- Silvana Gallardob. 1953USAmerican actress (1953–2012)
- José María Gallardo del Reyb. 1961ESSpanish composer and guitarist
- Carlos Gallardob. 1966MXMexican actor and director
- Marcelo Gallardob. 1976ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Liz Gallardob. 1979MXMexican actress
- Yovani Gallardob. 1986MXMexican baseball player
- Jesús Gallardob. 1994MXMexican association football player
- Carlos GallardoESSpanish pianist
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 61K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 45K | #103 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 45K | #103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 32K | #1,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 31K | #1,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,460 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Gallardo mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’ -i- hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gallardo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Gallardo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gallardo.
- How common is the name Gallardo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 61,440 people named Gallardo, about 1 in 740 residents.
- How common is Gallardo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Gallardo is the 109th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gallardoThe 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, “Gallardo” — the 109th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.