Galileo is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Galilea, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Galileo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,888 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,888 in 2022; #4,172 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Galileo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,172 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,888.
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Galileo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,888 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 44 (2022).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Galileo, making it the 4,172nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 693 places from #3,479 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 33 boys named Galileo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,888, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #3,612 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Galileo in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 530 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 203 babies named Galileo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 301 US boys were named Galileo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys 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 Galileo 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 | — | — | 25 | #4,172 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,479 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,043 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,888 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,140 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,604 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,660 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,819 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,258 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,515 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,612 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,595 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,367 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,159 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,237 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,897 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,580 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,396 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,599 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,250 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,980 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,616 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,017 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,463 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,844 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,259 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,286 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,324 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,065 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,129 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,044 |
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).