Gallì

surname · Latin script

Gallì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Gallus, Galli.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.3K
  • ARArgentina1 in 8.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

5,338 people

Sources
174 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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(measured from records)

Borrowed from Latin Gallus, Galli.

Sources 5

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gallì 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 Gallì is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5,3381 in 40K5.3K—2
AR Argentina5,1741 in 8.8K5.2K—1
US United States3,3961 in 98K3.4K—149
CH Switzerland1,9391 in 4.3K1.9K—51
UY Uruguay1,8391 in 1.8K1.8K——

5,338 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Gallì is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Gaelli, Gälli, Gallí, Galli

  • Portuguese name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Galli, Gälli

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Galli, Gallí, Gälli

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gallì under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gallì mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Gallus, Galli. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
In which country does Gallì have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Gallì, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gallì most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gallì is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gallì?
In Brazil, the national register counted 5,338 people named Gallì, about 1 in 40 thousand 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, “Gallì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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