Galileah

#6,630 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Galileah has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #6,630 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Galileah, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Galileah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,630
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Galileah 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galileah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Galileahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Galileah was born before 2017 — so the typical Galileah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
273
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Choose a decade

2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Galileah 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
+402
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,942
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,868
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.6%
Peak was 2015 (29)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,762
2015

Spellings of Galileah

Galileah is not the most common spelling — Galilea is, with 57.3% against Galileah's 1.7%.

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 Galileah is used

Across 1910–2025, Galileah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 235,781 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Galileah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Galileah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,630
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,942
Best rank ever
#4,762
2015
Peak year
2015
29 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
273
Count in 2025
17

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Sibling names for Galileah

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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