Galilei
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do hebr. Galil; latinizado em Galilaea; sobrenome em fq (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡalilei/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Galilei is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Switzerland. Galilei is also written Галилео in Cyrillic.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (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
Galilei in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Galilei
- Italian:/ɡalilei/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/ɡalilei/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/ɠalilɛi/(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)do hebr. Galil; latinizado em Galilaea; sobrenome em fq. Galilaei
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Galilei is read
(measured from records)Galilei is one spelling over 5 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.
- English53%
Galileo, Italian scientist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian11%
do hebr. Galil; latinizado em Galilaea; sobrenome em fq. Galilaei
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galilei in French.
- Spanish9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galilei in Spanish.
- Swahili8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galilei in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Galilei 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | listed | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); e-services.md — living population register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vincenzo Galileib. 1520ITItalian lutenist, composer and music theorist
- Galileo Galileib. 1564ITItalian polymath (1564–1642)
- Michelangelo Galileib. 1575FRItalian lutenist and composer (1575-1631)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Galilei?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /ɡalilei/; in Spanish /ɡalilei/; in Swahili /ɠalilɛi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Galilei mean?
- Recorded meaning: do hebr. Galil; latinizado em Galilaea; sobrenome em fq.
- In which country does Galilei have the most bearers?
- Galilei is most frequently recorded in Switzerland.
What do you want to know about Galilei?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galileiThe 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, “Galilei” — ranked 89778th in Switzerland (BFS). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.