Galeano

surname · Latin script

Meaning: do lat. gàlea, elmo; indica homem armado para a batalha

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/galɛano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Galeano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 147(inferred from the name graph)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 705
  • ARArgentina1 in 1K

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.

Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)

≈49,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
256 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GaleanoLatin(measured from records)
ГалеаноCyrillic(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)

recorded in Portuguese

do lat. gàlea, elmo; indica homem armado para a batalha

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galeano 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 Galeano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay#20≈49,000 est.≈1 in 147—Galeano67
AR Argentina#17344,4421 in 1K44KGaleano101
CO Colombia#171≈36,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K22Galeano135
NI Nicaragua#91≈8,800 est.≈1 in 705—Galeano43
HN Honduras#174≈5,400 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Galeano46
UY Uruguay#2013,2881 in 1K3.3KGaleano33

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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Galeano is also recorded as 5 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, Paraguay, Australia, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gälëânö

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Paraguay

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Galéano, Galėano

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Galéano

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay, Spain, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Găleăno

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Paraguay, Argentina

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Галеано

33 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Galeano 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 Spanish, probably a variant of Galiano.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

19401960198020002020Eduardo Galeano, b. 1940David Abdón Galeano Olivera, b. 1961Juan Galeano, b. 1962Camilo Romero, b. 1976Yeison Jiménez, b. 1991Luis Galeano, b. 1991Derlis González, b. 1994Andy Rivera, b. 1994Blas Riveros, b. 1998Lucas Agazzi, b. 2005

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 Galeano,Dear Galeano, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Galeano,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Galeano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—44K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.3K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—22#94

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

How do you pronounce Galeano?
A machine transcription gives /galɛano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Galeano mean?
Recorded meaning: do lat. gàlea, elmo; indica homem armado para a batalha
In which country does Galeano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Galeano in Paraguay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galeano.
How common is the name Galeano?
In Argentina, the national register counted 44,442 people named Galeano, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
How common is Galeano compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Galeano is the 20th most common surname of 30,328 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, “Galeano” — the 20th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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