Galilee
#3,734 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Galilee has been given to 648 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #3,734 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Galilee, 2025
1 in 82,900
Galilee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Galilee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 82,900
- 40 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 40,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,734
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 57,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Galilee sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Galilee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Galilees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Galilee was born before 2019 — so the typical Galilee is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 648
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (285).
Is Galilee 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
- −707
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −218
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,615
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.5%
- Peak was 2023 (62)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Galilee
Galilee is not the most common spelling — Hailee is, with 22.0% against Galilee's 0.87%.
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 Galilee is used
Across 1910–2025, Galilee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 266,991 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4New York1 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. Galilee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Galilee around the world
Where Galilee 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 & Wales2020–2020#5,493in 2020
- France2007–2007#6,297in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Galilee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Galilee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Galilee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.