Galvano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Gawain or Gavin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡalβano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Galvano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 140K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 310Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 837K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Galvano
- Spanish:/ɡalβano/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ɡalvano/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɡalbɐnu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Gawain or Gavin
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Galvano is found
(measured from records)Galvano 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Galvano | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Galvano | 13 |
| AR Argentina | 326 | 1 in 140K | 326 | Galvano | 38 |
| US United States | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 204 | Galvano | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 168 | 1 in 1.3M | 168 | Galvano | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Galvano | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)Galvano is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Da fr. Gauvain; etimologia oscura, come per molti nomi dei romanzi della Tavola Rotonda.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Latvian, Koka vai cinka klišejas kopija, kas izgatavota galvanoplastikas ceļā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Albino Galvanob. 1907ITItalian painter and philosopher (1907-1990)
- Mauro Galvanob. 1964ITItalian boxer
- Bill Galvanob. 1966USAmerican politician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galvano mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Gawain or Gavin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Galvano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡalβano/; in Italian /ɡalvano/; in Portuguese /ɡalbɐnu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Galvano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Galvano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galvano. After it come Philippines, Argentina, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Galvano?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 326 people named Galvano, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Galvano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galvanoThe 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, “Galvano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.