Gallegos
See also: gallegos
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Gallegos.
Proper noun
Gallegos (plural Gallegoses)
- A surname from Spanish.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Gallegos is the 486th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 68,373 individuals. Gallegos is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.89%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gallegos”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.
Spanish
Etymology
From gallegos, plural of gallego (“Galician”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈʝeɡos/ [ɡaˈʝe.ɣ̞os] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈʎeɡos/ [ɡaˈʎe.ɣ̞os] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈʃeɡos/ [ɡaˈʃe.ɣ̞os] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈʒeɡos/ [ɡaˈʒe.ɣ̞os] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eɡos
- Syllabification: Ga‧lle‧gos
Proper noun
Gallegos m or f by sense
- a surname