Gallego Surname
Approximately 210,591 people bear this surname
Gallego Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 82,883 | 1:576 | 114 |
| Spain | 72,766 | 1:642 | 55 |
| Philippines | 24,344 | 1:4,159 | 325 |
| Argentina | 7,193 | 1:5,942 | 624 |
| United States | 6,111 | 1:59,313 | 7,012 |
| Mexico | 2,598 | 1:47,778 | 2,525 |
| Guatemala | 1,958 | 1:8,214 | 973 |
| Brazil | 1,842 | 1:116,218 | 4,391 |
| Cuba | 1,810 | 1:6,366 | 677 |
| Venezuela | 1,454 | 1:20,773 | 1,485 |
| Bolivia | 1,207 | 1:8,796 | 1,016 |
| Ecuador | 999 | 1:15,922 | 2,392 |
| Panama | 749 | 1:5,223 | 591 |
| Saudi Arabia | 557 | 1:55,396 | 7,891 |
| Peru | 530 | 1:59,970 | 4,758 |
| Chile | 507 | 1:34,746 | 1,801 |
| France | 372 | 1:178,556 | 27,838 |
| Uruguay | 343 | 1:10,005 | 1,122 |
| England | 301 | 1:185,110 | 16,566 |
| Canada | 236 | 1:156,125 | 15,843 |
| Dominican Republic | 208 | 1:50,158 | 2,578 |
| Germany | 163 | 1:493,899 | 42,398 |
| Portugal | 160 | 1:65,114 | 3,431 |
| Honduras | 149 | 1:59,171 | 1,349 |
| Switzerland | 134 | 1:61,290 | 7,605 |
| Belgium | 120 | 1:95,805 | 14,735 |
| Belize | 115 | 1:3,091 | 628 |
| Nicaragua | 102 | 1:59,030 | 1,521 |
| Thailand | 87 | 1:811,935 | 130,701 |
| Andorra | 78 | 1:1,075 | 178 |
| Australia | 69 | 1:391,242 | 31,907 |
| Japan | 68 | 1:1,880,063 | 27,024 |
| Netherlands | 40 | 1:422,179 | 43,576 |
| Italy | 36 | 1:1,698,797 | 84,491 |
| Singapore | 30 | 1:183,590 | 7,666 |
| Qatar | 28 | 1:84,214 | 9,043 |
| Costa Rica | 27 | 1:177,040 | 2,395 |
| Ireland | 22 | 1:214,043 | 8,362 |
| Guam | 21 | 1:7,625 | 1,143 |
| Puerto Rico | 12 | 1:295,845 | 2,647 |
| Wales | 11 | 1:281,321 | 15,850 |
| Finland | 9 | 1:610,745 | 34,002 |
| Scotland | 9 | 1:594,869 | 21,724 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| Cayman Islands | 8 | 1:7,987 | 922 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 1:1,467,097 | 5,611 |
| Armenia | 5 | 1:586,036 | 10,281 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | 1:1,832,455 | 58,414 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| Paraguay | 4 | 1:1,809,186 | 12,346 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1:1,509,441 | 47,971 |
| El Salvador | 3 | 1:2,114,629 | 5,401 |
| Sudan | 2 | 1:18,755,098 | 14,167 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Gabon | 2 | 1:944,597 | 6,773 |
| Lesotho | 2 | 1:1,016,279 | 21,693 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 402 | 1:124,922 | 12,088 |
The alternate forms: Gállego (66) & Gàllego (2) are calculated separately.
Gallego (139) may also be a first name.
Gallego Demographics
Average Gallego Salary in
United States
$42,461 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gallego Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gallego Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gallego is found most frequently in Colombia. It can be found as: Gállego or Gàllego. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gallego? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gallego is the 2,641st most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 34,605 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 53 percent of Gallego are found; 46 percent are found in South America and 40 percent are found in Caribbean South America. It is also the 784,558th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 139 people.
It is most frequently used in Colombia, where it is carried by 82,883 people, or 1 in 576. In Colombia Gallego is most numerous in: Antioquia Department, where 42 percent live, Valle del Cauca Department, where 15 percent live and Caldas Department, where 10 percent live. Not including Colombia this surname occurs in 88 countries. It is also common in Spain, where 35 percent live and The Philippines, where 12 percent live.
Gallego Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gallego has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Gallego last name rose 1,520 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gallego Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gallego surname are 41.69% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 94.92% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Gallego earn in different countries varies significantly. In Peru they earn 14.98% less than the national average, earning S/. 16,481 per year; in Colombia they earn 14.79% more than the national average, earning $26,060,300 COP per year; in United States they earn 1.59% less than the national average, earning $42,461 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.55% less than the national average, earning $43,945 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
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- 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 Gallego
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