Galilee
Galilee was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,734 among girls’ names; 648 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Galilee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Galilee?
#3,734 among girls’ names, 2025
Galilee rose from #5,349 in 2015 to #3,734 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 24.9 per million.
62 babies in 2023, the peak
Galilee peaked in 2023, when 62 girls were given it, #2,771 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,734 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,027 | 33.3 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,771 | 38.6 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,334 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,898 | 23.2 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,516 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,411 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,264 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,121 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,544 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,349 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,576 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,891 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,958 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,411 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,028 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,836 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,256 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,748 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,854 | 5.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,881 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,259 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,305 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,489 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Galilee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Galilee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Galilee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Galilee, and how old are they?
An estimated 644 Americans named Galilee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 379 people named Galilee (357 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,189 babies since 1880, Galilee is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 503 babies (8.0%), the second 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 Galilee
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 Galilee and names like it
- Compare Galilee and GalileaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGalilee peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Galilee since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Galilee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Galilee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.