Galia

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.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Galia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish32%

  Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English22%

  A kind of hybrid melon with greenish flesh.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hebrew11%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Galia in Hebrew.

• Bulgarian7.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Galia in Bulgarian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Galia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Liora
• Adina
• Ilana
• Yael
• Lior
• Esther
• Deborah
• Maya
• Noa
• Eliana
• Claudia
• Ariel

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Galia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Galià, Galïa

• Russian given name96 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh

  Also written Галия, Ғалия, Galiya, Галія, Galija

• French given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium, United States

  Also written Galià, Galiä

• Czech given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia

  Also written Ğalia, Galiá

• Italian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Israel

  Also written Galià

• Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Philippines, Kenya

  Also written Galïa

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Galia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, 10 (23) mars, 16 (29) avril. Galine ou Galina est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 16 août, 27 avril.

  as a name·Russian Names

• In German, weibl. Vom., neuhebräischer Name, der »Welle« bedeutet.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Jewish: modern Hebrew name, meaning ‘wave’.

  as a word

• In rup, definite nominative of Galii

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Galia Golanb. 1938USIsraeli writer (1938-)
• Galia Ackermanb. 1948FRFrench and Russian journalist, writer, historian, translator and blogger, born in the Soviet Union
• Galia Yishaib. 1950ILIsraeli actress and singer (1950–2020)
• Galia Rahavb. 1954ILIsraeli public health researcher and physician
• Galia Ozb. 1964ILIsraeli writer
• Galia Patt-Shamirb. 1964ILSenior Academic Staff
• Galia Chimiakb. 1973BGPolish-Bulgarian sociologist
• Galia Dvorakb. 1988ESSpanish Olympic table tennis player
• Galia AvidanILresearcher
• Galia GivolyILIsraeli professor of law

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Galia?

A machine transcription gives /ɡalja/ (IPA) for Spanish.

Is Galia a male or female name?

Galia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).

What does the name Galia mean?

In English, A kind of hybrid melon with greenish flesh.

In which country does Galia have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 886 people named Galia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled galia.

How common is the name Galia?

In the United States, the national register counted 810 people named Galia in 2020, about 1 in 411 thousand residents.

How common is Galia compared with other names?

In Bolivia, Galia is the 677th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.