Galeno
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Galeno is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In Spanish, recorded as doc (doctor).
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)
doc (doctor)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Galeno is read(measured from records)
Galeno 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.
- Spanish49%
doc (doctor)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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- Portuguese27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galeno in Portuguese.
- English19%
calm, serene; from Greek
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Galeno counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 912 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 619 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 49 | — |
| MX Mexico | — | 33 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 26 | — |
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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Galeno is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
El que lleve una vida serena y pacífica
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In Italian, Galen (the physician)
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)
- Juvenal Galenob. 1838BRBrazilian writer and poet (1838-1931)
- Angelo Galenob. 1857ITItalian politician
- Henriqueta Galenob. 1887BRBrazilian lawyer (b. 1887, d. 1964)
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.5K | #1,369 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 912 | #26,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 871 | #29,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 657 | #32,900 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 49 | #45,103 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 49 | #45,014 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 33 | #3,349 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Galeno mean, and where does it come from?
- doc (doctor) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Galeno have the most bearers?
- Galeno is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Galeno?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galenoThe 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, “Galeno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.