Galdo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma ital. de Galdus (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/ɡaldo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Galdo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 59K
- PEPeru≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Galdo
- Spanish:/ɡaldo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɡaldu/(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)forma ital. de Galdus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Galdo is found
(measured from records)Galdo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Galdo | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Galdo | 2 |
| ES Spain | 853 | 1 in 59K | 853 | Galdo | 80 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 1 | Galdo | 19 |
| PE Peru | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Galdo | 40 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Galdo | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | 46 | 1 in 74K | 46 | Galdo | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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)- María Xosé Rodríguez Galdob. 1949ESSpanish economist
- Antonio Galdob. 1957ITItalian writer
- Pablo Galdob. 1979ESSpanish pianist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galdo mean, and where does it come from?
- forma ital. de Galdus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Galdo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡaldo/; in Portuguese /ɡaldu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galdo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Galdo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galdo. After it come Indonesia, Spain, Italy and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Galdo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 853 people named Galdo, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Galdo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galdoThe 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, “Galdo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.