Galabov

surname · Latin script

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

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

Galabov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 1.4M
  • ITItaly≈1 in 2.5M

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 Galabov 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈830 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GalabovLatin(measured from records)
ГълъбовCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Гълъбов in RU Russia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galabov 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 Galabov is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#390≈830 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Galabov64
DE Germany—≈31 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Galabov26
RU Russia—≈27 est.≈1 in 5.3M—Гълъбов6
US United States—≈26 est.≈1 in 13MlistedGalabov33
IT Italy—≈25 est.≈1 in 2.5M—Galabov5
ES Spain—191 in 2.6M19—2
AT Austria—≈6 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Galabov5

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Galabov is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Also written Галабов, Gălăbov, Gǎlǎbov

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gălăbov

21 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Konstantin Galabov, b. 1892Rumen Galabov, b. 1978Zdravets Iliev Galabov, 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalУважаеми(а) Galabov,Dear Galabov, (English)
InformalУважаеми(а) Galabov,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Galabov
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Galabov?
A machine transcription gives /ɡələbəv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
In which country does Galabov have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 829 people named Galabov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galabov.
How common is the name Galabov?
In Spain, the national register counted 19 people named Galabov, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
How common is Galabov compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Galabov is the 390th most common surname of 67,606 surnames 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, “Galabov” — the 390th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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