Galea surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Galea surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,045 people carried this name — #22,870 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 644 people named Galea.

Most of them — 475 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Seine-Saint-Denis.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 475
Seine-Saint-Denis 43
Bouches-du-Rhône 20
Essonne 14
Paris 14
Corsica 11
Var 9
Pas-de-Calais 8
Loire 8

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

27 people named Galea live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 15
Vaud 6
Fribourg 3
Geneva 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Galea is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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