Galilee is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Galilea, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Galilee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,771 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,771 in 2023; #3,735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Galilee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,735 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,771.
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Galilee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,771 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 62 (2023).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Galilee, making it the 3,735th most common girls’ name of the year, down 708 places from #3,027 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 54 girls named Galilee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,771, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #5,351 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Galilee in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 7 babies. In all, 648 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 285 babies named Galilee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 444 US girls were named Galilee; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Galilea (9,309 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Galilee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,125 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,962 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,414 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,031 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,842 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,260 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,752 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,859 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,886 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,264 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,311 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,496 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).