Galia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: 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 Nort
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Galia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 136K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 22K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 32K
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 Galia 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
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)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Galia is read(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
A kind of hybrid melon with greenish flesh.
as a wordkaikki.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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Galia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Galia | 14 |
| US United States | — | 810 | 1 in 411K | 4.7K | Galia | 111 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Galia | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 367 | 1 in 136K | 367 | Galia | 44 |
| BO Bolivia | #677 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Galia | 24 |
| GE Georgia | — | 185as გალია | 1 in 22K | 185 | Galia | 5 |
| MD Moldova | — | 40 | 1 in 84K | 40 | — | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the xinhua-italian-manual register; e-services.md — living population register. 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)
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 nameRussian Names
In German, weibl. Vom., neuhebräischer Name, der »Welle« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Jewish: modern Hebrew name, meaning ‘wave’.
as a word
In rup, definite nominative of Galii
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 203 | #96,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 202 | #91,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 179 | #94,676 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 135 | #22,262 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 135 | #22,181 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Galia mean, and where does it come from?
- 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 Nort… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Galia a male or female name?
- Galia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/galiaThe 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, “Galia” — the 677th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.