Magalloñ
surname · Latin script
Magalloñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Panama it is the 81st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Magallón.
- PAPanama≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 17K
- ESSpain1 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Magallon in US United States, PH Philippines, PA Panama 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)From Spanish Magallón.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Magalloñ 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 | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Magallon | 47 |
| US United States | — | 5,387 | 1 in 62K | 5.4K | Magallon | 220 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Magallon | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Magallon | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,489 | 1 in 34K | 1.5K | Magallon | 74 |
| PA Panama | #81 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 9 | Magallon | 36 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Magallon | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | #949 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Magallon | 4 |
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; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Magalloñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Magallón. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Magalloñ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Magalloñ in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled magallon.
- How common is the name Magalloñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,387 people named Magalloñ in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Magalloñ compared with other names?
- In Panama, Magalloñ is the 81st most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/magallo%C3%B1The 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, “Magalloñ” — the 81st most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.