Gal — #11199 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Gal

The Social Security Administration has registered 245 babies named Gal between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gal currently holds the #11199 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Gal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 143 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gal performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Gal shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Gal in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 245 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.