Galeote
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Arthurian name from Galaad/Galahad; biblical 'mount of witness'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaleot̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galeote is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 37K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 159K
- FRFrance≈1 in 973K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,369 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arthurian name from Galaad/Galahad; biblical 'mount of witness'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galeote 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,369 | 1 in 37K | 1.4K | Galeote | 91 |
| AR Argentina | 286 | 1 in 159K | 286 | Galeote | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 88 | 1 in 2.4M | 88 | Galeote | 26 |
| FR France | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 973K | 12 | Galeote | 67 |
| US United States | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 7M | listed | Galeote | 50 |
| BE Belgium | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Galeote | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Galeote | 4 |
1,369 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Galeote 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.
In Spanish, galley slave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Galeote" Lcc , Lar . v. galeriano .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Rafael Pellicerb. 1906ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1906-1963)
- Guillermo Galeote Jiménezb. 1941ESSpanish physician and politician
- Jesús Galeote Tormob. 1951ESRoman Catholic bishop
- Gerardo Galeote Quecedob. 1957ESSpanish politician
- Fermín Galeoteb. 1963ESSpanish association football player
- Francisco Galeote Pereab. 1979ESSpanish politician
- Jesús Manuel Galeote AlbarránESSpanish politician
- Ricardo GaleoteESSpanish politician
- Ángel Barcia GaleoteESSpanish politician
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,365 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,365 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 286 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #69,672 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- What does the name Galeote mean, and where does it come from?
- Arthurian name from Galaad/Galahad; biblical 'mount of witness'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Galeote?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaleot̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Galeote have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Galeote, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galeote.
- Where is Galeote most common?
- Galeote is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galeote?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,369 people named Galeote, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galeoteThe 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, “Galeote”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.