Galkin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: denoting a thievish or talkative person (A dictionary of surnames)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈɡaɫkʲɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from галкин

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Galkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Galkin is also written Галкин in Cyrillic.

  • TJTajikistan≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 16Kfew records
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 27Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Galkin 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈37,000 named Галкин, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
163 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Tajikistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Galkin in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
GalkinLatin(measured from records)
ГалкинGalkin in Cyrillic(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Галкин in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Галкін in UA Ukraine.

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 Galkin

  • Russian:/ˈɡaɫkʲɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

denoting a thievish or talkative person. Gall 1. British: nickname, of Celt, origin, meaning ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’ (ultimately akin to the Gmc forms mentioned at Wallace). In the Highlands of Scotland the

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Galkin is found

(measured from records)

Galkin 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 Galkin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#311≈37,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Галкин163
UA Ukraine—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 14K—Галкін30
UZ Uzbekistan—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 16K—Галкин6
TJ Tajikistan—≈850 est.≈1 in 12K—Галкин2
BY Belarus—≈610 est.≈1 in 15K1Галкин17
US United States—2761 in 1.2M327Galkin86

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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)

Galkin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Galkìn

29 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)

Galkin 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.

  • patronymic from Galka, a nickname meaning ‘jackdaw’, used to denote a thievish or talkative person.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name for someone from the village of Galki in eastern Belarus.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Basque, "Reste perdu" H .

    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)
19401950196019701980Boris Galkin, b. 1947Vladislav Galkin, b. 1971Maxim Galkin, b. 1976

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 Galkin,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Galkin come from?
denoting a thievish or talkative person. Gall 1. British: nickname, of Celt, origin, meaning ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’ (ultimately akin to the Gmc forms mentioned at Wallace). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Galkin?
In Russian /ˈɡaɫkʲɪn/ (Wiktionary).
What does the name Galkin mean?
Recorded meaning: denoting a thievish or talkative person.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Galkin?
Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Галкин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Galkin?
In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Galkin in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Galkin compared with other names?
In Russia, Galkin is the 311th most common surname of 1,952,411 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, “Galkin” — the 311th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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