Galpin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr galopin from galoper ‘to gallop’; first attested Robert, William Galopin 1195 P (Wales), 1201 AssSomerset (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Galpin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 806 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 413K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 413K (inferred from the name graph)
806 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OFr galopin from galoper ‘to gallop’; first attested Robert, William Galopin 1195 P (Wales), 1201 AssSomerset. Meaning ‘messenger, page; turnspit, scullion in a monastery’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galpin is found
(measured from records)Galpin 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 | 806 | 1 in 413K | 836 | Galpin | 7 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Galpin | 6 |
| SM San Marino | — | — | — | Galpin | 1 |
806 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Galpin 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.
In English, occupational name for a messenger or scullion (in a monastery), from Old French galopin ‘page’, ‘turnspit’, from galoper ‘to gallop’.
as a nameDictionary 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gaston Galpinb. 1841FRFrench politician
- Ernest Edward Galpinb. 1858ZASouth African botanist and banker (1858-1941)
- William Freeman Galpinb. 1890American author and historian
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Galpin come from?
- from OFr galopin from galoper ‘to gallop’; first attested Robert, William Galopin 1195 P (Wales), 1201 AssSomerset. Meaning ‘messenger, page; turnspit, scullion in a monastery’. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What does the name Galpin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OFr galopin from galoper ‘to gallop’; first attested Robert, William Galopin 1195 P (Wales), 1201 AssSomerset.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galpin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 806 people named Galpin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galpin. After it come Poland, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Galpin most common?
- Galpin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 413 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Galpin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 806 people named Galpin in 2010, about 1 in 413 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galpinThe 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, “Galpin” — ranked 27439th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.