Galician Names
Galician naming shares a history with Portuguese while also preserving forms characteristic of Galicia. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1900. | 209#1,123 | Down 191 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1882. | 186#1,219 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1923 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1885. | 413#664 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1940. | 9#10,257 | Down 2,973 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1895. | 174#1,286 | Down 217 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1885. | 81#2,267 | Up 606 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1955. | 10#7,749 | Down 2,689 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1888. | 10#9,832 | Down 3,613 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914. | 11#8,973 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1910. | 90#2,090 | Down 126 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1905. | 26#5,057 | Down 1,795 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1952. | 34#3,432 | Up 2,784 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1997. | 19#5,194 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1940. | 6#11,166 | Down 51 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977. | 11#7,217 | Up 1,559 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003. | 13#6,512 | Up 5,819 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1908. | —Unranked | — | 1913 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2021. | 7#10,626 | new | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1935. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2015. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2024. | 8#11,876 | new | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Galician; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 1994 |
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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.