Gâlea
surname · Latin script
Gâlea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin galea. Doublet of galley.
- ESSpain1 in 38K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
- ARArgentina1 in 271K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,321 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galea in ES Spain, US United States, RO Romania and 1 more.
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)Borrowed from Latin galea. Doublet of galley.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gâlea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,321 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Galea | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,013 | 1 in 328K | 1.1K | Galea | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 189 | 1 in 1.1M | 189 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 168 | 1 in 271K | 168 | — | — |
| RO Romania | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Galea | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| MT Malta | #636 | — | — | — | Galea | 5 |
1,321 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Dan Gâleab. 1948RORomanian politician
- Ilie-Valer Gâleab. 1949RORomanian 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 Gâlea mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin galea. Doublet of galley. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Gâlea have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gâlea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galea.
- Where is Gâlea most common?
- Gâlea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gâlea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,321 people named Gâlea, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Gâlea compared with other names?
- In Malta, Gâlea is the 636th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A2leaThe 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, “Gâlea” — the 636th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.