Gallegos

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gallegos is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 44th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Gallegos, originally denoting a place settled by ‘people from Galicia’.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 775◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.2K
  • CLChile1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈93K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
347 ●

704K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

habitational name from any of the numerous places named Gallegos, originally denoting a place settled by ‘people from Galicia’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gallegos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#111472,576402K rec.—3.3KGallegos205
PE Peru#35784,90889K rec.——Gallegos70
US United States—68,373120K rec.1 in 4.9K68KGallegos347
CL Chile#30234,2536.3K rec.—1Gallegos102
EC Ecuador#46713,874△745 rec.1 in 1.2K14KGallegos61
SV El Salvador#3348,8517.5K rec.——Gallegos38
VE Venezuela#8568,5228.2K rec.——Gallegos44
AR Argentina#6217,23836K rec.1 in 6.3K7.2KGallegos75
CA Canada—4,0864.1K rec.——Gallegos51
ES Spain—3,3485.3K rec.1 in 15K3.3KGallegos101
CR Costa Rica—396920 rec.1 in 13K396—43
EG Egypt—348339 rec.——Gallegos8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish846K66%
  • English335K26%
  • 32K2%
  • Portuguese7.5K1%
  • Catalan3.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish846,05066%
English335,45926%
32,0582%
Portuguese7,5451%
Catalan3,3501%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gallegos is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname370K records spelled Gallegos15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gallegös, Gallęgos, Gällëgös, Gållegos

  • a separate surname34K records spelled Gallegos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Peru

    Also written Gallego-S, Gall-Egos

  • Catalan surname7.1K records spelled Gallegos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, Peru

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Gallégos

  • Czech surname3.9K records spelled Gallegos14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Czechia, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Гальегос, Галлегос, Gállegos

  • Lao surname3.4K records spelled Gallegos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written กาเรโกส

  • Indonesian surname1.9K records spelled Gallegos3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Indonesia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Gállegos

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gallegos is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, masculine plural of gallego

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, river, Argentina

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Asturian, masculine plural of gallegu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

0100200300190019502000238 · 1995

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Gallegos in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19004
19011
19023
19034
19049
190510
19065
19075
190813
190917
191013
191113
191213
191315
191418
191511
191619
191715
191829
191922
192015
192128
192231
192329
192433
192534
192634
192732
192829
192949
193033
193148
193241
193343
193433
193541
193662
193745
193855
193949
194054
194133
194262
194350
194470
194548
194672
194777
194865
194974
195081
195189
195277
195398
195496
1955104
195697
1957112
1958104
1959113
1960126
1961108
1962108
1963133
1964134
1965166
1966200
1967129
1968156
1969125
1970131
1971159
1972124
1973147
1974155
1975158
1976164
1977180
1978177
1979180
1980189
1981169
1982185
1983195
1984203
1985206
1986188
1987202
1988188
1989164
1990188
1991190
1992167
1993183
1994187
1995238
1996187
1997212
1998225
1999211
2000178
2001197
2002209
2003204
2004180
2005223
2006186
2007211
2008222
2009226
2010204
2011210
2012218
2013204
2014148
2015203
2016155
2017169
2018170
2019146
2020141
2021131
2022118
2023127
202478

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado, b. 1784José Manuel Gallegos, b. 1815José Gallegos y Arnosa, b. 1857Rómulo Gallegos, b. 1884Raúl Alcalá, b. 1964Frank Gallegos, b. 1970Julián Sánchez, b. 1988Felipe Gallegos, b. 1991Giovanny Gallegos, b. 1991Gustavo Cuéllar, b. 1992

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●

Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Gallegos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201068K#486
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202066K#498
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200055K#551
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202414K#313
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—14K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—7.2K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.3K#1,534
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.3K#1,534
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—3.3K#123
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—396#710
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995238—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009226—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 165 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gallegos?
We estimate roughly 93 thousand people bear Gallegos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Gallegos have the most bearers?
Gallegos is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled gallegos.
How common is Gallegos compared with other names?
In Mexico, Gallegos is the 111th most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Gallegos mean?
Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Gallegos, originally denoting a place settled by ‘people from Galicia’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Gallegos” — the 111th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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