Galvån
surname · Latin script
Galvån is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Galván, ultimately from Latin Galbanus, from Galba + -anus (“-an”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from Gaulish of uncertain meaning. Doublet of Galvao, Galvano, and Galvani.
- ARArgentina1 in 769(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 800
- UYUruguay1 in 808
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #812 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- 1 in 769 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 MX Mexico, US United States, AR Argentina 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)- SpanishGalván(measured from records)
- LatinGalbanus(measured from records)
- Galba+(measured from records)
- Galba rootgalba“larva“larva, worm, fatty”(measured from records)
- Gaulishof(measured from records)
From Spanish Galván, ultimately from Latin Galbanus, from Galba + -anus (“-an”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from Gaulish of uncertain meaning. Doublet of Galvao, Galvano, and Galvani.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galvån is found
(measured from records)Galvån 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #118 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 801 | 3K | Galvan | 213 |
| 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 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Galvan | 69 |
| CO Colombia | #504 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 6 | Galvan | 79 |
| ES Spain | #334 | 12,172 | 1 in 4.1K | 12K | Galvan | 147 |
| UY Uruguay | #161 | 4,192 | 1 in 808 | 4.2K | Galvan | 42 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #239 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Galvan | 34 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galvån mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Galván, ultimately from Latin Galbanus, from Galba + -anus (“-an”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from Gaulish of uncertain meaning. Doublet of Galvao, Galvano, and Galvani. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galvån?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Galvån in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galvan. After it come Argentina, United States, Philippines and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Galvån most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galvån is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 769 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Galvån?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 59,160 people named Galvån, about 1 in 769 residents.
- How common is Galvån compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Galvån is the 118th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galv%C3%A5nThe 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, “Galvån” — the 118th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.