Galatas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a seller of milk, an agent noun from gala ‘milk’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɑˈɫɑtɑz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galatas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 919K(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 118K
- GRGreece≈1 in 198K
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 Galatas 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
occupational name for a seller of milk, an agent noun from gala ‘milk’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galatas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Galatas | 1 |
| US United States | 362 | 1 in 919K | 362 | Galatas | 136 |
| ES Spain | 67 | 1 in 747K | 67 | Galatas | 7 |
| PL Poland | 65as Galata | 1 in 589K | 36 | — | 1 |
| GR Greece | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 4 | Galatas | 20 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Galatas | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Galatas | 6 |
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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Galatas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Grieķijā ("Γαλατάς"), Atikas perifērijā, 2600 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
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)
- Iñigo Galatasb. 1957PHpublicist
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 362 | #56,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 353 | #54,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 346 | #62,494 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #36,420 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #36,240 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Galatas mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a seller of milk, an agent noun from gala ‘milk’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Galatas?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑˈɫɑtɑz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Galatas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 919 people named Galatas in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galatas.
- How common is the name Galatas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 362 people named Galatas in 2010, about 1 in 919 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galatasThe 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, “Galatas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.