Galvan

Galvan is the 640th most common surname in the United States, shared by 51,675 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,784.

By the numbers

People: 51,675
Rank: 640th
How common: 1 in 5,784
Per 100,000: 17.3

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Galván, ultimately from Latin Galbanus, from Galba + -anus (“-an”), from galba (“larva, worm, fatty”), from cel-gau of uncertain meaning.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Galvan

Luis Galván (1948–2025)Argentine footballer
Rubén Galván (1952–2018)Argentine association football player
Enrique Tierno Galván (1918–1986)Spanish academic and writer
Sergio Galván Rey (born 1973)Argentine footballer
Matteo Galvan (born 1988)Italian sprinter

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

Surnames like Galvan

Try it on yourself

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.