Galin

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɡæɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Galin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 28K
  • SESweden1 in 77K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Galin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

321 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GalinLatin(measured from records)
ГалинCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Галин in KZ Kazakhstan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galin 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.

Where Galin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3211 in 1M360Galin49
SE Sweden1321 in 77K132—2
UY Uruguay1271 in 27K127——
KZ Kazakhstan121as Галин1 in 158K121Галин2
ES Spain921 in 544K110—28
SI Slovenia741 in 28K74—4
HR Croatia321 in 132K32—1

321 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Galin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Galín

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Galín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Galín

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Галин, Галін, Galín, Gälin

  • Hebrew surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Philippines, Russia

    Also written גלין, Glynn, Gelin, Glyn, GLin

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Galin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Faroese, mad, crazy, senseless

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vo, gallium

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, "(V-ger-m), tallo de la flor del maíz" A .

    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)

17501800185019001950Pierre Galin, b. 1786Gunnar Galin, b. 1902Boris Galin, b. 1904Vlad-Vladimir Galin-Corini, b. 1941Jurij Galin, b. 1943Carmen Galin, b. 1946
  • Pierre Galinb. 1786FRFrench music educator (1786–1821)
  • Gunnar Galinb. 1902SESwedish ice hockey player, bandy player and association football player (1902-1997)
  • Boris Galinb. 1904born:1904|died:1961|; Galin, Boris Abramovič, 1904-1961; Galin, Boris Abramovič, 1904-; Galin, Boris Abramovič; Галин, Б. А. (Борис Абрамович), 1904-1961; Галин, Борис, 1904-; Галин, Борис Абрамови
  • Vlad-Vladimir Galin-Corinib. 1941RORomanian politician
  • Jurij Galinb. 1943CZCzech theater director
  • Carmen Galinb. 1946RORomanian actress

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)

FormalDear Mr Galin,
InformalHi Galin,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Galin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020360#60,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000335#56,979
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010321#62,359
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—132#5,781
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—127—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—92#29,215
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—92#29,046
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—74#5,673
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202132#17,593
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202125—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Galin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Galin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 321 people named Galin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galin.
Where is Galin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Galin?
In the United States, the national register counted 321 people named Galin in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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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, “Galin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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