Galani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma pl. de Galano
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡalɐni/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Galani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 349K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 349K (inferred from the name graph)
606 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma pl. de Galano
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galani 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.
606 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallanib. 1516ITnot in their usual nameItalian poet and dramatist
- Arianthe Galanib. 1940NZAustralian actress
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 606 | #14,336 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 53 | #42,900 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #113,535 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #220,282 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #329,403 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #237,395 |
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
- What does the name Galani mean, and where does it come from?
- forma pl. de Galano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Galani?
- In Portuguese /ɡalɐni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Galani have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 606 people named Galani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galani.
- Where is Galani most common?
- Galani is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 349 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 606 people named Galani, about 1 in 349 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galaniThe 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, “Galani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.