Galarza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Galarza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: topographic name, cognate with Galardi, from galar ‘kindling’, ‘dead wood’ + the collective suffix -tza.
- ECEcuador1 in 556(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.5K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- 1 in 556 (inferred from the name graph)
42,929 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
topographic name, cognate with Galardi, from galar ‘kindling’, ‘dead wood’ + the collective suffix -tza.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galarza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #175 | 42,929 | 1 in 1.1K | 43K | Galarza | 98 |
| EC Ecuador | #72 | 30,423 | 1 in 556 | 30K | Galarza | 86 |
| US United States | — | 10,601 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Galarza | 313 |
| PE Peru | #486 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Galarza | 83 |
| BO Bolivia | #99 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Galarza | 48 |
| UY Uruguay | #641 | 937 | 1 in 3.6K | 937 | Galarza | 25 |
42,929 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Valentín Galarza Moranteb. 1882ESSpanish politician
- Pedro Galindo Galarzab. 1906MXMexican songwriter, film producer, film actor and singer (1906-1989)
- Ramona Galarzab. 1940ARArgentinian singer (1940–2020)
- Ximena Galarzab. 1972BOBolivian journalist
- Andrés Arauzb. 1985ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician and economist (born 1985)
- Mariano Galarzab. 1986ARArgentine rugby union footballer
- Ana Galarzab. 1988ECModel and politician from Ecuador
- Uziel Muñozb. 1995MXnot in their usual nameMexican shot putter
- Matías Galarzab. 2002PYParaguayan footballer
- Matías Galarzab. 2002ARArgentine footballer (born 2002)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Galarza mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name, cognate with Galardi, from galar ‘kindling’, ‘dead wood’ + the collective suffix -tza. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Galarza have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Galarza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galarza.
- Where is Galarza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galarza is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 556 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Galarza?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 42,929 people named Galarza, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Galarza compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Galarza is the 175th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galarzaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Galarza” — the 175th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.