Galàn
surname · Latin script
Galàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 38,528 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Galán, from galán (“gallant”). Doublet of Gallant. Galàn is also written Галан in Cyrillic, กาลุน in Thai and 갈란 in Korean (Hangul).
- ESSpain1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.9K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Galàn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
38,528 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Galàn in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai, Korean (Hangul) and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Galan in MX Mexico, ES Spain, US United States 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)- SpanishGalán(measured from records)
- Spanish rootgalán“gallant”(measured from records)
From Spanish Galán, from galán (“gallant”). Doublet of Gallant.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galàn is found
(measured from records)Galàn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #110 | 38,528 | 1 in 1.3K | 39K | Galan | 188 |
| MX Mexico | #558 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 436 | Galan | 150 |
| PH Philippines | #906 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Galan | 64 |
| US United States | — | 8,293 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Galan | 326 |
| CO Colombia | #723 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 2 | Galan | 93 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #255 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Galan | 44 |
| SV El Salvador | #280 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Galan | 25 |
| NI Nicaragua | #245 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Galan | 16 |
38,528 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Galàn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Galán, from galán (“gallant”). Doublet of Gallant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galàn?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Galàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galan. After it come Mexico, Philippines, United States and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Galàn most common?
- Galàn is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galàn?
- In Spain, the national register counted 38,528 people named Galàn, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Galàn compared with other names?
- In Spain, Galàn is the 110th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gal%C3%A0nThe 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, “Galàn” — ranked 124th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.