Gallo

At the 2020 census, 21,711 Americans bore the surname Gallo — 1,610th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,800.

By the numbers

People: 21,711
Rank: 1,610th
How common: 1 in 13,800
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the noun gallo (“rooster”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.9%
Hispanic or Latino 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Gallo

Vincent Gallo (born 1961)American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
Robert Gallo (born 1937)American biomedical researcher
Max Gallo (1932–2017)French historian, writer and politician
Alexandre Gallo (born 1969)Brazilian association football player and manager
Nunzio Gallo (1928–2008)Italian singer
Carlos Roberto Gallo (born 1956)Brazilian footballer
Carla Gallo (born 1975)American actress
Andrea Gallo (1928–2013)Italian presbyter

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

Surnames like Gallo

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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.