Galván
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Gailean, Gaileen, Gaileena, Gailina, Halcón blanco
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Galván is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 769(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 808
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.1K
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)
- #812 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- 1 in 769 (inferred from the name graph)
59,160 people
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galvan in US United States, AR Argentina, PH Philippines and 5 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)
Gailean, Gaileen, Gaileena, Gailina, Halcón blanco
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galván 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 | #118 | 59,160 | 1 in 769 | 59K | Galvan | 104 |
| US United States | #765 | 53,822 | 1 in 6.2K | 54K | Galvan | 397 |
| PH Philippines | #448 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Galvan | 69 |
| ES Spain | #334 | 12,172 | 1 in 4.1K | 12K | Galvan | 147 |
| CO Colombia | #504 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 6 | Galvan | 79 |
| UY Uruguay | #161 | 4,192 | 1 in 808 | 4.2K | Galvan | 42 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #239 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Galvan | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | #310 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Galvan | 24 |
59,160 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Galván is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Gorrión
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Spanish, Arthurian name, from the Welsh form of Gawain.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Galician, a kind of little worm used as bait for fishing (animal)
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)
- Juan Galván Jiménezb. 1596ESSpanish baroque painter (1596-1658)
- Enrique Tierno Galvánb. 1918ESSpanish academic and writer (1918-1986)
- Guillermo Galván Galvánb. 1943MXMexican politician
- Luis Galvánb. 1948ARArgentine footballer (1948–2025)
- Rubén Galvánb. 1952ARArgentine association football player (1952-2018)
- Miguel Galvánb. 1957MXMexican actor (1957–2008)
- Sergio Galván Reyb. 1973ARArgentine footballer
- Maru Camposb. 1975MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician
- Íñigo Errejónb. 1983ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Geraldine Galvánb. 1993MXMexican actress and singer
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Galván mean, and where does it come from?
- Gailean, Gaileen, Gaileena, Gailina, Halcón blanco Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Galván have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 59 thousand people named Galván, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galvan.
- Where is Galván most common?
- Galván is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 769 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galván?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 59,160 people named Galván, about 1 in 769 residents.
- How common is Galván compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Galván is the 118th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galv%C3%A1nThe 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, “Galván” — the 118th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.