Galofaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante regional de Garofalo
/ɡəɫoʊfɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galofaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 280K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 293K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)
240 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante regional de Garofalo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galofaro 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 240 | 1 in 1.4M | 240 | Galofaro | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 42 | 1 in 1.1M | 42 | Galofaro | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 40 | 1 in 293K | 40 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 30 | 1 in 280K | 30 | Galofaro | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | Galofaro | 11 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | Galofaro | 4 |
240 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luca Galofarob. 1965ITItalian architect (1965-)
- Manola GalofaroBEBelgian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 240 | #79,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 42 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 40 | #30,695 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Galofaro mean, and where does it come from?
- variante regional de Garofalo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Galofaro?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɫoʊfɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Galofaro have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 240 people named Galofaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galofaro.
- Where is Galofaro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Galofaro is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 280 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Galofaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 240 people named Galofaro in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galofaroThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Galofaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.