Galician Boy Names
Galician naming shares a history with Portuguese while also preserving forms characteristic of Galicia. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 8,085#22 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,418#150 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,661#212 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Galician as André; in U.S. records from 1880. | 868#368 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1887. | 2,351#158 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Román; in U.S. records from 1882. | 6,162#42 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 7,554#26 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 684#455 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1918. | 614#492 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1885. | 413#664 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Antón; in U.S. records from 1880. | 132#1,389 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Brandán; in U.S. records from 1955. | 10#7,749 | Down 2,689 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1885. | 30#3,687 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1996 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1892. | —Unranked | — | 1932 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1965. | 113#1,534 | Up 873 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1909. | 12#6,881 | Up 2,020 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1916. | 5#12,267 | Down 4,696 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1952. | 34#3,432 | Up 2,784 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Xián; in U.S. records from 1997. | 19#5,194 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1940. | 6#11,166 | Down 51 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1977. | 11#7,217 | Up 1,559 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 2003. | 13#6,512 | Up 5,819 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1971. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 2002. | 5#12,728 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1919. | —Unranked | — | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Tomé; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1978. | 5#13,144 | new | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Xoán; in U.S. records from 2021. | 7#10,626 | new | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1935. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 2015. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 2020. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1942. | —Unranked | — | 1942 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.