Gałka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: knob
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡawka/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Gałka is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)knob
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Antoni Gałkab. 1889PLPolish politician
- Konrad Gałkab. 1974PLPolish swimmer
- Aleksandra Gałkab. 1989PLPolish journalist
- Michał Gałkab. 2001PLPolish cyclist
- Mariusz GałkaPLPolish botanist and ecologist
- Jakub GałkaPLresearcher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.9K | #542 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.9K | #555 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gałka mean, and where does it come from?
- knob Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gałka?
- In the etymology graph, Галушка is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gałka?
- In Polish /ɡawka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gałka have the most bearers?
- Gałka is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Gałka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C5%82kaThe 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, “Gałka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.