Galan

At the 2020 census, 7,849 Americans bore the surname Galan — 4,367th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,849
Rank: 4,367th
How common: 1 in 38,100
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Galán, from galán (“gallant”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Galan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 84.8%
White, not Hispanic 10.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Galan

Javi Galán (born 1994)Spanish footballer
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (1943–1989)Colombian politician
Juana Galán (1787–1812)Spanish guerilla fighter
Ernesto Galán (born 1986)Spanish footballer
Giancarlo Galan (born 1956)Italian politician
Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan (born 1950)businessperson

People named Galan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Galan

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.