Galeta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: »sivilena čahura«; homonim: »kolač ili pogačica od tvrda hljeba, bez soli, za brodove« (Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡalet̪a/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Galeta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia. Galeta is also written ጋለታ in Ethiopic.
- ETEthiopia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Galeta in other scripts: Ethiopic
(measured from records)Locally spelled ጋለታ in ET Ethiopia.
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.
How to pronounce Galeta
- Spanish:/ɡalet̪a/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Czech:/ɡalɛta/(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)»sivilena čahura«; homonim: »kolač ili pogačica od tvrda hljeba, bez soli, za brodove«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Galeta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Galeta 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 Turkish, breadstick, grissino
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, biscuit, cookie
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)- Jan Galetab. 1982CZCzech art historian
- Kristo Galetab. 1983EEEstonian shot putter (born 1983)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Galeta?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡalet̪a/; in Czech /ɡalɛta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Galeta mean?
- Recorded meaning: »sivilena čahura«; homonim: »kolač ili pogačica od tvrda hljeba, bez soli, za brodove«
- In which country does Galeta have the most bearers?
- Galeta is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled ጋለታ.
What do you want to know about Galeta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galetaThe 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, “Galeta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.