Galilea
Galilea was given to 446 girls in 2025, #647 among girls’ names; 9,309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,240 Americans named Galilea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Galilea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Galilea?
#647 among girls’ names, 2025
Galilea fell from #636 in 2015 to #647 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.25 to 0.28 per 1,000.
594 babies in 2016, the peak
Galilea peaked in 2016, when 594 girls were given it, #525 among girls’ names. The 446 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 446 | #647 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 462 | #642 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 451 | #653 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 397 | #734 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 361 | #788 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 396 | #707 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 428 | #675 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 419 | #693 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 532 | #568 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 594 | #525 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 449 | #636 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 362 | #775 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 338 | #801 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 370 | #752 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 252 | #1,001 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,200 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 232 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,203 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 305 | #902 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 321 | #836 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 289 | #878 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 296 | #833 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 309 | #802 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 240 | #933 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,381 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 199 | #1,022 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,200 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,739 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,925 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,054 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,092 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,235 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Galilea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Galilea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Galilea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Galilea, and how old are they?
9,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,309 Americans ever recorded as Galilea. The median Galilea alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 5,370 people named Galilea (5,352 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,846 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Galilea born?
The states with the most babies named Galilea are Texas, California and Florida, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 144 | #241 | 2.6× |
| California | 130 | #258 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 22 | #744 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 22 | #476 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 14 | #492 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,116 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #844 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 7 | #735 | 1.0× |
| Oregon | 7 | #510 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,902 | 0.3× |
Where Galilea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Galilea is most over-represented in Texas: since 1993 it was given 2.6 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 Galilea 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 12,487 babies since 1880, Galilea is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 446 of their 541 babies (82%), again the most given.
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 Galilea
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 Galilea and names like it
- Compare Galilea and GaileBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGalilea peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Galilea since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Galilea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Galilea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.