Galilea

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Galilea is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel).

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 59K
  • USUnited States1 in 62K
  • ARArgentina1 in 228K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.7K

across 7 countries

Sources
111

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 61K

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Galilee in US United States, PA Panama, Galileia in BR Brazil and Galilaea in DE Germany.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Galilea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico5,3633.5K rec.3Galilea85
US United States5,3522.2K rec.1 in 62K5.4KGalilee111
AR Argentina2,9972.2K rec.140Galilea30
GT Guatemala#900381405 rec.Galilea11
PE Peru329266 rec.Galilea16
PY Paraguay322241 rec.Galilea8
CL Chile25499 rec.2Galilea36
PH Philippines2401.2K rec.Galilea16
ES Spain193936 rec.1 in 259K886Galilea72
CR Costa Rica8459 rec.1 in 61K84Galilea10
BR Brazil7876 rec.1 in 2.7M78Galileia22
PA Panama2714 rec.Galilee2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Spanish12K84%
  • English8026%
  • Catalan1931%
  • Lao1701%
  • Portuguese1061%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish11,84684%
English8026%
Catalan1931%
Lao1701%
Portuguese1061%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Galilea is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan given name1.1K records spelled Galilea5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Galilée, Galilee, Galilèe, Galileé

  • Indonesian given name85 records spelled Galilea5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines

    Also written Galilèe, Galilee

38 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.

Over time

0200400600200020102020594 · 2016

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Galilea in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1993–2025
Yearrecords
19935
199415
199515
199620
199745
199865
1999199
2000135
2001147
2002240
2003309
2004296
2005289
2006321
2007305
2008212
2009232
2010202
2011252
2012370
2013338
2014362
2015449
2016594
2017532
2018419
2019428
2020396
2021361
2022397
2023451
2024462
2025446

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)33 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

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

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Galilea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.4K#3,741
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)886#4,929
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)886#4,928
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2016594
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2017532
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2024462
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2023451
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2015449
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025446
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2019428
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2018419
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2022397

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 204 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Galilea?
We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Galilea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Galilea have the most bearers?
Galilea is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled galilea.
How common is Galilea compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Galilea is the 756th most common given name of 2,536 given names recorded there.
Is Galilea a male or female name?
Galilea 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.
What does the name Galilea mean?
Recorded meaning: Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Galilea” — the 756th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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