Galia
Galia was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,855 among girls’ names; 594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Galia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Galia?
#3,855 among girls’ names, 2025
Galia rose from #6,309 in 2015 to #3,855 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 23.6 per million.
41 babies in 2024, the peak
Galia peaked in 2024, when 41 girls were given it, #3,718 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,855 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,718 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,137 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,706 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,349 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,933 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,351 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,392 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,562 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,369 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,309 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,676 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,557 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,186 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,546 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,884 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,647 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,892 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,582 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,786 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,087 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,963 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,455 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,499 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,488 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,219 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,189 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,980 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,891 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,204 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,562 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,276 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Galia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Galia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Galia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Galia, and how old are they?
An estimated 588 Americans named Galia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 810 people named Galia (803 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Galia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,776 | 1.3× |
Where Galia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Galia is most over-represented in California: since 1967 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Galia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,254 babies since 1880, Galia is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 568 babies (6.7%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Galia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Galia and names like it
- Compare Galia and GaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGalia peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Galia since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Galia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Galia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.