Galais
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of galer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Galais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
- ARArgentina1 in 3.8M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of galer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galais 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Galais is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, second-person plural present indicative of galar
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)- Bernard Galaisb. 1921FRFrench composer and harpist
- Jennifer Galaisb. 1992FRFrench athletics competitor
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 206 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 193 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 134 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 131 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 76 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Galais mean, and where does it come from?
- first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of galer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Galais have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Galais in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galais.
- How common is the name Galais?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 12 people named Galais, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Galais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galaisThe 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, “Galais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.