Gallina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from gallina ‘hen’, ‘chicken’; possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hen, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɑˈɫinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gallina is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from gallina ‘hen’, ‘chicken’; possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hen, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
- ITItaly
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Gallina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. gallina; criador/vendedor de galinhas ou apelativo jocoso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Asturian, hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, hen (female chicken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vista
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Lodovico Gallinab. 1752ITItalian painter (1752-1787)
- Giacinto Gallinab. 1852ITItalian writer (1852-1897)
- Mario Gallinab. 1889ITItalian actor (1889–1950)
- Giovanni Gallinab. 1892ITItalian association football player (1892-1963)
- Elio Gallinab. 1913ITItalian civil law notary (1913–2008)
- Ernesto Gallinab. 1924ITItalian apostolic nuncio
- Roberto Gallinab. 1940ITItalian motorcycle racer
- Francesco Gallinab. 1945ITItalian association football player
- Pedro Alfredo Gallinab. 1949ARArgentine Footballer (1949–2022)
- Anna Gallinab. 1983DEGerman 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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,283 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 178 | #6,897 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 156 | #10,610 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 125 | #23,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 125 | #23,427 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 73 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Gallina mean, and where does it come from?
- from gallina ‘hen’, ‘chicken’; possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hen, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gallina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑˈɫinə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Gallina?
- In the etymology graph, Gallo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gallina have the most bearers?
- Gallina is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gallinaThe 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, “Gallina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.