Galvez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡalbɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galvez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 36th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Gálvez.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.1K
- PEPeru≈1 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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 Spanish Gálvez.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galvez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #105 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Galvez | 116 |
| ES Spain | #128 | 30,431 | 1 in 1.6K | 30K | Galvez | 178 |
| PE Peru | #156 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Galvez | 106 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Galvez | 14 |
| US United States | — | 20,425 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Galvez | 360 |
| GT Guatemala | #36 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Galvez | 71 |
| CL Chile | #184 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Galvez | 121 |
| HN Honduras | #150 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Galvez | 40 |
| SV El Salvador | #173 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Galvez | 41 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elsa Garcia Galvezb. 1924ARArgentine ballet dancer
- Ed Bautab. 1935CUnot in their usual nameCuban baseball player
- Jorge Álvarezb. 1959CUnot in their usual nameCuban rower
- Rosa Galvezb. 1961CACanadian politician
- Luis Beethoven Galvezb. 1964SESwedish musician
- Daniel Galvez-Vallejob. 1967Tenor singer
- Felicity Galvezb. 1985AUAustralian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Andreau Galvezb. 1991USbadminton player
- Tomas Galvezb. 2005GBFinnish association footballer
- Roger A. Galvezfilm director
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30K | #165 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30K | #165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,314 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Galvez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Gálvez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Galvez?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡalbɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Galvez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Galvez in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galvez.
- How common is the name Galvez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30,431 people named Galvez, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Galvez compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Galvez is the 105th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galvezThe 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, “Galvez” — the 105th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.