Galindez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Galindo

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Galindez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 7.5K
  • ARArgentina1 in 11K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
180 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from the personal name Galindo.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Galindez 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 Galindez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#301≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Galindez56
CO Colombia#801≈6,600 est.≈1 in 7.5K3Galindez61
PH Philippines—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 21K—Galindez43
AR Argentina—4,0371 in 11K4KGalindez74
US United States—1,3501 in 246K1.4KGalindez180
PR Puerto Rico#304≈390 est.≈1 in 8.2K—Galindez17

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Galindez is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Galíndez, Galindéz, Galìndez

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Galíndez

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, United States, Spain

    Also written Galíndez

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Kenya

    Also written Galíndez

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Italy, Spain

    Also written Galíndez

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Philippines

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Galíndez

34 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000García Galíndez, b. 780Aznar Galíndez I, b. 780Toda Galíndez, b. 895Lorenzo Galíndez de Carvajal, b. 1472Manuel Ignacio Galíndez Zabala, b. 1892Pedro José de Galíndez, b. 1892Guillermo Galíndez, b. 1928Sibel Galindez, b. 1967

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)

FormalEstimado/a Galindez,Dear Galindez, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Galindez,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Galindez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#18,902
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,896
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000992#23,796
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—3#113
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Galindez mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the personal name Galindo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Galindez?
A machine transcription gives /ɡalindeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Galindez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Galindez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galindez.
How common is the name Galindez?
In Argentina, the national register counted 4,037 people named Galindez, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Galindez compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Galindez is the 301st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Galindez” — the 301st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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