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Gala vs Galin

American parents have registered 2,186 Galas since 1880, against 18 Galins. Gala is still ahead, with 71 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gala against Galin, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gala Galin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gala has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Gala had 13 and Galin had 6.

Side by side

  Gala Galin
Total US births 2,18618
Most in one year 997
Babies in 2025 71under 5
Estimated living today 1,90013
Median age today 2868
Peak year 19651948
Best rank 1,055th girls3,010th boys
Rank in 2025 2,485thunranked
First recorded 19191948
Girls / boys 2,186 / 00 / 18

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Galins alive today are over 68; half the Galas are over 28. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gala Galin
England and Wales 1007

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gala and Galin.