Gallus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Lat. Gallus 'Gaul, Gaulish man'; also linked to St
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡæɫəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gallus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 718K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 51K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Lat. Gallus 'Gaul, Gaulish man'; also linked to St. Gall
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gallus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Gallus | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Gallus | 108 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Gallus | 11 |
| IT Italy | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 85K | listed | Gallus | 21 |
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 553 | Gallus | 170 |
| PL Poland | 441 | 1 in 87K | 243 | Gallus | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | Gallus | 21 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gallus 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, männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs (lat. Gallus »der Gallier«). Der heilige Gallus, ein irischer Mönch, gründete im 7. Jh. eine
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
variant of Gall 2.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In sco, daring; confident; cheeky.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a cock, rooster, cockerel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, potentiel, virtuel
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Constantius Gallusb. 325ITJunior Roman emperor from 351 to 354
- Thomas Gallusb. 1190FRFrench theologian
- Nicolaus Gallusb. 1516DEGerman theologian
- Philipp Christoph Gallusb. 1786DEjudge
- Maya Gallusb. 1901CACanadian documentary filmmaker
- Alexander Gallusb. 1907HUHungarian Born Australian Archaeologist (1907-1996)
- Georg Gallusb. 1927DEGerman politician (1927–2021)
- Alexander Gallusb. 1972DEGerman historian of modern age
- John GallusUSAmerican politician
- Steve GallusUSAmerican politician
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 553 | #42,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 500 | #41,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 463 | #46,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 243 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 243 | #13,636 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 198 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 198 | #16,341 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 60 | #16,209 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gallus come from?
- from Lat. Gallus 'Gaul, Gaulish man'; also linked to St. Gall Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gallus?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæɫəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gallus mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Lat. Gallus 'Gaul, Gaulish man'; also linked to St.
- What are other forms of the name Gallus?
- In the etymology graph, Gallo, Gall and Gal are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gallus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Gallus in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gallus.
- How common is the name Gallus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Gallus in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gallus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gallusThe 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, “Gallus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.