Galego
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Galego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language).
- BRBrazil≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 15K
- ESSpain1 in 93K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A language spoken in the region of Galicia in the Northwestern corner of the Spanish peninsula and which is related to Portuguese. It is believed to be the parent language of Portuguese and shares many similarities with it, but typically uses Spanish orthography.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Galego is read(measured from records)
Galego is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese52%
Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English23%
A language spoken in the region of Galicia in the Northwestern corner of the Spanish peninsula and which is related to Portuguese. It is believed to be the parent language of Portuguese and shares many similarities with it, but typically uses Spanish orthography.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galego in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galego 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.
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Galego 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 Finnish, Galician (language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Gumersindo Galego Veigab. 1926ESSpanish politician
- Ana Rosab. 1942BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress
- Luís Galegob. 1966PTPortuguese chess player
- Guadi Galegob. 1974ESSpanish singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.9K | #2,748 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 539 | #7,522 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 539 | #7,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 247 | #73,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Galego come from?
- A language spoken in the region of Galicia in the Northwestern corner of the Spanish peninsula and which is related to Portuguese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Galego mean?
- In Portuguese, Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
- In which country does Galego have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Galego in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galego.
- How common is the name Galego?
- In Spain, the national register counted 539 people named Galego, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Galego compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Galego is the 704th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Galego?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galegoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Galego” — the 704th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.