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Galadriel

#7,248 in 2025Girls' name

Maiden crowned with a radiant garland

Galadriel has been given to 234 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #7,248 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Galadriel, 2025

1 in 221,000

Galadriel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Galadriel: meaning, origin, and history

Maiden crowned with a radiant garland

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Galadriel means

Galadriel means “maiden crowned with a radiant garland”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Galadriel between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,616 in 1977.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,132 in 2015 to #7,248 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Galadriel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,248
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Galadriel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galadriel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Galadriels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Galadriel was born before 2000 — so the typical Galadriel is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Galadriel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+469
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,884
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2003 (15)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,616
1977

Where Galadriel is used

Across 1910–2025, Galadriel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,886,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Galadriel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Galadriel around the world

Where Galadriel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1979–2025
    #3,960
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Galadriel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,248
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,616
1977
Peak year
2003
15 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
15

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Galadriel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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