Does galvan as a last name sound like a mexican, black, caucasian, asia, or european name?
It sounds Mexican, Black, Caucasian, European and Filipino. There are also records of people from all of those ethnic groups with that name. It’s one of the realities of the old Spanish empire that they took the same names with them to all parts of the world that they conquered. As the people with those names intermarried with people of other cultures through the centuries, none of the names belongs to just one group. One of the shortcomings at looking at the source of the name is that it doesn’t take into account that the world has migrated far and wide in the last 510 years. In the Caribbean alone, Galvan is a very common name from the Dominican Republic to Cuba to PR to Venezuela…and that’s just the Caribbean. It once was a European name, but not anymore.
