Galarza

surname · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name, cognate with Galardi, from galar ‘kindling’, ‘dead wood’ + the collective suffix -tza

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024

/ɡaˈlaɾ.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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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.

  • ECEcuador1 in 556(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 1.2K

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 Galarza 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.

Argentina (measured from records)

42,929 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
313 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 556 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
GalarzaLatin(measured from records)
GalarzaTibetan(measured from records)
ГаларсаCyrillic(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.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where the surname Galarza is found

(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.

Where Galarza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#17542,9291 in 1.1K43KGalarza98
EC Ecuador#7230,4231 in 55630KGalarza86
MX Mexico#730≈15,000 est.≈1 in 8.6K355Galarza132
US United States—10,6011 in 31K11KGalarza313
PE Peru#486≈10,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Galarza83
BO Bolivia#99≈10,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Galarza48
PY Paraguay#285≈2,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Galarza26

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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

Galarza is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Peru, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gälärzä

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Peru, Spain

    Also written Gálârzä

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador

    Also written Gálárzá

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina

    Also written Gâlărzã

40 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)
1980199020002010Andrés Arauz, b. 1985Uziel Muñoz, b. 1995Matías Galarza, b. 2002
  • Andrés Arauzb. 1985ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician and economist (born 1985)
  • Uziel Muñozb. 1995MXnot in their usual nameMexican shot putter
  • Matías Galarzab. 2002PYParaguayan footballer

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)
FormalEstimado/a Galarza,Dear Galarza, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Galarza,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

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.
How do you pronounce Galarza?
In Spanish /ɡaˈlaɾ.sa/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Galarza?
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. After it come Ecuador, Mexico, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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 2026-10-13.

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