Galvani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do nome fr. antigo Gauvain; fixado na expressão Casata del Galvan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡalvɐni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Galvani is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
do nome fr. antigo Gauvain; fixado na expressão Casata del Galvan
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Galvani is read(measured from records)
Galvani is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galvani in Portuguese.
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galvani in Spanish.
- French17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Galvani in French.
- English15%
Luigi, Italian physiologist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian6.8%
do nome fr. antigo Gauvain; fixado na expressão Casata del Galvan
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galvani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 355 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 236 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 130 | — | — |
| FR France | — | 114 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 30 | — | — |
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 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Galvani 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 Croatian, talijanski fizičar i liječnik, otkrio galvanski elektricitet; po njemu su nazvane istosmjerne električne struje i mnogobrojni električni procesi, naprave i postupci
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Paio Galvãob. 1165PTnot in their usual nameLeonese cardinal and canon lawyer (c.1165–1230)
- Luigi Galvanib. 1737ITItalian physician, physicist, and philosopher
- Lucia Galeazzi Galvanib. 1743ITItalian Medical scientist
- Ciro Galvanib. 1867ITItalian actor (1867-1956)
- Pietro Galvanib. 1884ITRighteous Among the Nations
- Dino Galvanib. 1890ITItalian actor (1890–1940)
- Romano Galvanib. 1962ITItalian footballer
- Stefano Galvanib. 1977ITItalian tennis player
- Alison Galvanib. 1977USUS epidemiologist
- Vesna GalvaniSIresearcher
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #2,940 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 355 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 236 | #85,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 215 | #86,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 207 | #84,310 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 56 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Galvani?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡalvɐni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Galvani mean?
- Recorded meaning: do nome fr. antigo Gauvain; fixado na expressão Casata del Galvan
- In which country does Galvani have the most bearers?
- Galvani is most frequently recorded in Argentina.
What do you want to know about Galvani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galvaniThe 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, “Galvani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.