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Galia

#3,855 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly wave from God

Galia has been given to 594 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #3,855 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Galia, 2025

1 in 87,200

Galia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Galia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly wave from God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Galia means

Galia may mean “wave from God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 594 girls were recorded with the name Galia between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,718 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,933 in 2020 to #3,855 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,309 in 2015 to #3,855 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 Galia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 42,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,855
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Galia 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Galias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Galia was born before 2015 — so the typical Galia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
594
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Galia 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
−137
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,078
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,454
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.7%
Peak was 2024 (41)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,718
2024

Spellings of Galia

Galia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 20.9% against Galia's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Galia is used

Across 1910–2025, Galia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 228,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Galia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Galia around the world

Where Galia 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1967–2023
    #4,708
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2009–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–1970
    #475
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Galia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,855
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,078
Best rank ever
#3,718
2024
Peak year
2024
41 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
594
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Galia

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

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Sibling names for Galia

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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