Galata
surname · Latin script
Meaning: former name of the Karaköy neighborhood in Istanbul
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəlejtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
- ITItaly≈1 in 396K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
former name of the Karaköy neighborhood in Istanbul
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 396K | 1 | Galata | 10 |
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 150 | Galata | 95 |
| PL Poland | 65 | 1 in 589K | 36 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Galata | 32 |
| FR France | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 18 | 1 in 595K | 18 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Galata | 10 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Galata is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Galatian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Oromo, praise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Turcijas pilsētas Stambulas daļa, osta Bosfora šauruma Zelta Raga līča krastā, galvenais pilsētas tirdzniecības rajons
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Andrea Galatab. 1656Roman Catholic bishop
- Lino Donosob. 1922CUnot in their usual nameMajor League Baseball pitcher
- Stanisław Galatab. 1945PLPolish economist
- Aphrodite GalataGBcomputer scientist
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 36 | #61,718 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,302 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 18 | #58,018 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Galata mean, and where does it come from?
- former name of the Karaköy neighborhood in Istanbul Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Galata?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəlejtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Galata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 people named Galata in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galata.
- How common is the name Galata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Galata in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galataThe 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, “Galata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.