Galinski

Locally spelled Galiński in FR France.

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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• English surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Galiński

• Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Panama

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Galiñski, Galiński

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States

  Also written Galiński

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Galinsḳi, Galiński

• Russian surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, United States, Türkiye

  Also written Галински, Galiński

• Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Galiński

22 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.

Galinski is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• habitational name from Galiny Duze in Skiemiewice voivodeship.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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.

• Heinz Galinskib. 1912DEpresident of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (1912-1992)

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Galinski mean, and where does it come from?

habitational name for someone from Galirice in northeastern Poland, Galinka in Ukraine, or Galiniai in Lithuania. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Galinski?

It depends on the language: in Polish /ɡaʎin̪skʲi/; in Portuguese /ɡɐlĩʃki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Galinski have the most bearers?

In Poland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Galinski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galinski.

Where is Galinski most common?

Galinski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Galinski?

In Poland, the national register counted 2,419 people named Galinski in 2026, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.