Gallego

5,751 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gallego in the 2020 census, making it the 5,799th most common in the country. That is about one person in 52,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,751
Rank: 5,799th
How common: 1 in 52,000
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish gallego (“Galician”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 80.5%
White, not Hispanic 11.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gallego

Américo Gallego (born 1955)Argentine footballer
Ricardo Gallego (born 1959)Spanish footballer
Gallego (born 1944)Spanish footballer
Ruben Gallego (born 1979)American politician
Rubén Gallego (born 1968)Russian writer
Justo Gallego Martínez (1925–2021)Spanish church builder
David Gallego (born 1972)Spanish footballer
Juan Nicasio Gallego (1777–1853)Spanish poet

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

Surnames like Gallego

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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.