Galilea

#647 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Galileo

Galilea has been given to 9,309 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #647 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 594 recorded.

Babies named Galilea, 2025

1 in 7,430

Galilea over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Galilea: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Galileo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Galilea means

Galilea is a feminine form of Galileo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Galilea → Galileo. The family’s meaning is “Galilean; Christian”, recorded in Italian with the source elements Galilaeus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Galileo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,309 girls were recorded with the name Galilea between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 594 in 2016; its best national rank was #525 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #707 in 2020 to #647 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #636 in 2015 to #647 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Galilea?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 7,430; 446 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 3,600; 0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025: #647; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 5,153 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Galilea 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 1001%

School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,153 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galilea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Galileas were born

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

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 9,309; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (3,946).

Is Galilea 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: −5; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +60; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −11; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.99×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 75.1%; Peak was 2016 (594)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #525; 2016

Spellings of Galilea

Galilea is the most-used spelling, taking 40.6% of the 22,916 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Galilea40.6%9,309
Dalila26.4%6,042
Nailea6.4%1,462
Alicea5.2%1,185
Kalila5.1%1,168
Kailea4.6%1,046
Gaile3.9%898
Galilee2.8%648

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 Galilea is used

Across 2016–2025, Galilea was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 1,299 girls, against 1 in 2,932 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

177 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 1,299
2California1 in 1,408
3Arizona1 in 2,222
4Colorado1 in 2,273
5Kansas1 in 2,326
6Oregon1 in 2,381
7Nevada1 in 2,439
8Washington1 in 2,703

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.

Geographically, Galilea is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 93% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Notable people named Galilea

People whose public names include Galilea, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Galilea MontijoActor
b. 1973

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Galilea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #647
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 60
Best rank ever: #525; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 594 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 9,309
Count in 2025: 446

Names similar to Galilea

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

Azalea Galilee Galylea Kaylea Avonlea Kalea Gala Annalea Nailea Rosalea Galaxy Galina Malea Kailea Charlea Galia Gale Galileah Alea Ashlea Galena Kylea Angelea Naylea

Names with a curve like Galilea

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Galilea, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Karsyn Harlee Aya Malaya Rayne Milena Aliana Ivanna Zainab Leyla Averi Hadassah

Sibling names for Galilea

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

For a sister

Ariah Paislee Amaris Aleena Coraline Amiyah Brinley Ivanna

For a brother

Princeton Nikolai Franco Aarav Uriah Jaxton Boston Layton

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