Galician Girl 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 as María; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,887#87 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,568#198 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Verónica; in U.S. records from 1880. | 730#427 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Sofía; in U.S. records from 1881. | 8,252#9 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1900. | 209#1,123 | Down 191 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1880. | 119#1,715 | Up 842 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1882. | 186#1,219 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1923 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1940. | 9#10,257 | Down 2,973 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1895. | 174#1,286 | Down 217 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1891. | 33#4,294 | Down 647 rank positions in five years | 1978 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Inés; in U.S. records from 1883. | 213#1,111 | Up 662 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1885. | 81#2,267 | Up 606 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1888. | 10#9,832 | Down 3,613 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1888. | 103#1,897 | Up 207 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Carmiña; in U.S. records from 1914. | 11#8,973 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Galician as Lúa; in U.S. records from 1910. | 90#2,090 | Down 126 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1905. | 26#5,057 | Down 1,795 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1903. | 12#8,716 | Down 1,877 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1908. | —Unranked | — | 1913 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 1922. | —Unranked | — | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Galician; in U.S. records from 2024. | 8#11,876 | new | 2024 |
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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.