Galo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Gallic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡalo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 568(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 33K
- CLChile≈1 in 34K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 568 (inferred from the name graph)
29,774 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A language of India.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Galo is read(measured from records)
Galo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
Gallic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
A language of India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #135 | 29,774 | 1 in 568 | 30K | Galo | 84 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Galo | 55 |
| US United States | — | 1,584 | 1 in 210K | 1.9K | Galo | 207 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 463 | Galo | 65 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Galo | 26 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Galo | 46 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 5 | Galo | 41 |
29,774 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Galo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Lat. Gallus, 'Gaulish; from Gaul'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, variante dialetal setentrional de Gallo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
from galo ‘braid’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Oriundo de la Galia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Galo González Díazb. 1894CLChilean politician (1894-1958)
- Galo Plaza Lassob. 1906USPresident of Ecuador (1948 - 1952)
- Galo René Pérezb. 1923ECEcuadorian poet, writer, and literary critic (1923-2008)
- Galo Chiribogab. 1950ECEcuadorian politician
- Galo Carrerab. 1953MXMexican diplomat
- Galo Vásquezb. 1957ECEcuadorian footballer
- Galo Fernández Villasecab. 1961CLChilean bishop
- Galo Blancob. 1976ESSpanish tennis player
- Galo Corozob. 1990ECEcuadorian footballer
- Galo Contreras SanzESSpanish politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 30K | #82 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,969 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 186 | #526 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 106 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 106 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 30 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #8,969 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1967 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Galo come from?
- A language of India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Galo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡalo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Galo mean?
- In Spanish, Gallic
- Is Galo a male or female name?
- Galo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Galo have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Galo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galo.
- Where is Galo most common?
- Galo is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 568 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galo?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 29,774 people named Galo in 2024, about 1 in 568 residents.
- How common is Galo compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Galo is the 135th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Galo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galoThe 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, “Galo” — the 135th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.