Galkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: denoting a thievish or talkative person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡəlkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 4Kas Галкин(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 14Kas Галкін
- FIFinland1 in 35K
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 Galkin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 named Галкин, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Галкин in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Галкін in UA Ukraine.
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)denoting a thievish or talkative person. Gall 1. British: nickname, of Celt, origin, meaning ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’ (ultimately akin to the Gmc forms mentioned at Wallace). In the Highlands of Scotland the
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galkin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #311 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Галкин | 163 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Галкін | 30 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Галкин | 6 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Галкин | 2 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Галкин | 17 |
| US United States | — | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 327 | Galkin | 86 |
| FI Finland | — | 161 | 1 in 35K | 161 | Galkin | 2 |
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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Galkin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from Galka, a nickname meaning ‘jackdaw’, used to denote a thievish or talkative person.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from the village of Galki in eastern Belarus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Basque, "Reste perdu" H .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Shmuel Halkinb. 1897BYnot in their usual nameSoviet poet (1897-1960)
- Ilya Galkinb. 1898RURussian historian
- Aleksandr Galkinb. 1922RUSoviet sociologist
- Aleksandr Galkinb. 1935RURussian politician (1935–2002)
- Boris Galkinb. 1947RURussian actor and composer
- Aleksandr Galkinb. 1958RURussian general
- Oleg Galkinb. 1965RUUkrainian bicycle racer (1965-2003)
- Vladislav Galkinb. 1971RUSoviet and Russian actor (1971–2010)
- Maxim Galkinb. 1976RURussian television personality, comedian
- Alexander Galkinb. 1979RURussian chess player
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 275 | #67,113 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 161 | #8,796 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 61 | — |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Galkin come from?
- denoting a thievish or talkative person. Gall 1. British: nickname, of Celt, origin, meaning ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’ (ultimately akin to the Gmc forms mentioned at Wallace). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Galkin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəlkɪn/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Galkin mean?
- Recorded meaning: denoting a thievish or talkative person.
- In which country does Galkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Галкин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Galkin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galkin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Galkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Galkin in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Galkin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Galkin is the 311th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galkinThe 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, “Galkin” — the 311th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.