Galilee
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr galilee ‘porch or chapel at the entrance to a church’; first attested William de la Galilye 1337 Cl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Galilee is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 62Kas Galilea(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 301Kas Galilea
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 533K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Galilee itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 533K (inferred from the name graph)
5,370 named Galilea, 2020
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Galilea in AR Argentina, ES Spain, GT Guatemala and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr galilee ‘porch or chapel at the entrance to a church’; first attested William de la Galilye 1337 Cl
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galilee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,370as Galilea | 1 in 62K | 5.4K | Galilee | 121 |
| GT Guatemala | #952 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Galilea | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 533K | — | Galilea | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 193as Galilea | 1 in 259K | 886 | Galilea | 78 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 301K | 140 | Galilea | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 84as Galilea | 1 in 61K | 84 | — | 7 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Galilea | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 28as Galilea | 1 in 121K | 43 | — | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
5,370 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling galilea. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Galilee is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 357 | #25,135 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 25 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galilee mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr galilee ‘porch or chapel at the entrance to a church’; first attested William de la Galilye 1337 Cl Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Galilee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Galilea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Galilee?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Galilee in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Galilee compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Galilee is the 952nd most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galileeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Galilee” — the 952nd most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.