Gallen

loc · Latin script

Meaning: cendant of Gallan’, a personal name from a dim

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gallen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 46K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 88K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 123K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,085 people

Sources
227 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Gallén in ES Spain.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

cendant of Gallan’, a personal name from a dim. of gall cock.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gallen 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.

Where Gallen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,0851 in 46K1.1KGallén34
US United States8491 in 392K889Gallen227
GB United Kingdom≈530 est.≈1 in 123KlistedGallen110
FR France≈400 est.≈1 in 169K46—1
DE Germany≈92 est.≈1 in 875K—Gallen28
FI Finland631 in 88K63—4

1,085 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling gallen. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gallen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Gallén

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gallén

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Gallén

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gallen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Notker den Stammler (9./10. Jh.), der durch seine Werke nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die mittelalterHche Dichtung und Musik ausübte, und vor allem Notker den Deutschen (10./11. Jh.), der mit der Übersetzung bi­ blischer, philosophischer und theologischer

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Welsh, first/third-person plural conditional of gallu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of galle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In se, inflection of galˈlet:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, inflection of gallar:

    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)

19201940196019802000Hugh Gallen, b. 1924James Gallen, b. 1928Conal Gallen, b. 1955Laurie Gallen, b. 1962Joe Gallen, b. 1972Steve Gallen, b. 1973Kevin Gallen, b. 1975Paul Gallen, b. 1981Zac Gallen, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Gallen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,123
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,120
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020889#28,526
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010849#28,176
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000799#28,194
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—63#18,524
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198160—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192148—

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Gallen come from?
cendant of Gallan’, a personal name from a dim. of gall cock. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What does the name Gallen mean?
Recorded meaning: cendant of Gallan’, a personal name from a dim.
In which country does Gallen have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Gallen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gallén.
Where is Gallen most common?
Gallen is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 46 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gallen?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,085 people named Gallen, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.

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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, “Gallen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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