Galo

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Gallic

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

/ɡalo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Galo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 568(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 33K
  • CLChile≈1 in 34K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

29,774 people, 2024

Sources
207 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 568 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A language of India.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Galo is read(measured from records)

Galo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish64%

    Gallic

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

  • English13%

    A language of India.

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galo 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 Galo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#13529,7741 in 56830KGalo84
PH Philippines—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 62K—Galo55
US United States—1,5841 in 210K1.9KGalo207
AR Argentina—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 33K463Galo65
BO Bolivia—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 12K—Galo26
PE Peru—≈760 est.≈1 in 42K—Galo46
CL Chile—≈530 est.≈1 in 34K5Galo41

29,774 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

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

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Ecuador

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Gallo, গালো, Ğalo

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Ecuador, Italy, United States

    Also written Galò, Ğalo

  • Croatian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Argentina

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Gallo, Гало, Galló, Gaĺo, Galó

55 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)

Galo 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 Latin, Lat. Gallus, 'Gaulish; from Gaul'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, variante dialetal setentrional de Gallo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • from galo ‘braid’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Oriundo de la Galia

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

1850190019502000Galo González Díaz, b. 1894Galo Plaza Lasso, b. 1906Galo René Pérez, b. 1923Galo Chiriboga, b. 1950Galo Carrera, b. 1953Galo Vásquez, b. 1957Galo Fernández Villaseca, b. 1961Galo Blanco, b. 1976Galo Corozo, b. 1990

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)

InformalHola Galo,Hi Galo, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Galo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#15,014
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,323
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,617
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—463—

Reference works 5

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 Galo come from?
A language of India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Galo?
A machine transcription gives /ɡalo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Galo mean?
In Spanish, Gallic
Is Galo a male or female name?
Galo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Galo have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Galo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galo.
Where is Galo most common?
Galo is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 568 people carrying it.
How common is the name Galo?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 29,774 people named Galo in 2024, about 1 in 568 residents.
How common is Galo compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Galo is the 135th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.

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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, “Galo” — the 135th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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