Galanos Surname
Approximately 2,702 people bear this surname
Galanos Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 1,726 | 1:6,419 | 726 |
| United States | 583 | 1:621,713 | 50,239 |
| Australia | 128 | 1:210,904 | 20,401 |
| South Africa | 50 | 1:1,083,554 | 64,652 |
| Cyprus | 34 | 1:26,026 | 2,877 |
| Canada | 32 | 1:1,151,425 | 83,867 |
| Brazil | 28 | 1:7,645,512 | 174,288 |
| France | 24 | 1:2,767,613 | 196,808 |
| Austria | 21 | 1:405,497 | 41,758 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15 | 1:235,760 | 11,850 |
| Germany | 13 | 1:6,192,728 | 213,814 |
| Israel | 8 | 1:1,069,704 | 62,476 |
| Zambia | 6 | 1:2,641,654 | 34,188 |
| Venezuela | 6 | 1:5,034,013 | 43,431 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
The alternate forms: Galanoš (1) are calculated separately.
Galanos Demographics
Average Galanos Salary in
United States
$47,981 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Galanos Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Galanos Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Galanos has its highest incidence in Greece. It can be rendered as a variant: Galanoš. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Galanos? popularity and diffusion
The surname Galanos is the 161,218th most widely held last name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 2,697,093 people. The surname Galanos occurs mostly in Europe, where 68 percent of Galanos live; 66 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 65 percent live in Helleno-Europe.
Galanos is most widespread in Greece, where it is borne by 1,726 people, or 1 in 6,419. In Greece Galanos is mostly found in: Attica, where 33 percent reside, Central Greece, where 14 percent reside and South Aegean, where 9 percent reside. Barring Greece this last name exists in 27 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 22 percent reside and Australia, where 5 percent reside.
Galanos Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Galanos surname are 1.76% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 51.47% being registered with the political party.
The amount Galanos earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 13.49% more than the national average, earning R 269,700 per year; in United States they earn 11.2% more than the national average, earning $47,981 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.25% more than the national average, earning $52,790 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Galanos
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