Galatas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a seller of milk, an agent noun from gala ‘milk’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡalat̪as/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Galatas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 362 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Galatas is also written Γαλατας in Greek.
- ESSpain1 in 747K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 919K
- BRBrazil1 in 6.2M
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. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
362 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Galatas in other scripts: Greek
(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.
How to pronounce Galatas
- Spanish:/ɡalat̪as/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a seller of milk, an agent noun from gala ‘milk’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Galatas is found
(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 362 | 1 in 919K | 362 | Galatas | 136 |
| GR Greece | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 4 | Galatas | 20 |
| ES Spain | 67 | 1 in 747K | 67 | Galatas | 7 |
| PL Poland | 65as Galata | 1 in 589K | 36 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Galatas | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 18as Galata | 1 in 595K | 18 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Galatas | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Galatas | 6 |
362 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); 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).
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /ɡalat̪as/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galatas?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 362 people named Galatas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galatas. After it come Greece, Spain, Poland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 54643rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.