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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Galaxy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Galaxy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Galaxy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Galaxy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Galaxy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Galaxy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Galaxy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Galaxy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 18 0.000004856 18 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 11 6 29%
2016 23 0.000006269 18 5 57%
2017 25 0.000006991 20 5 60%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 100%
2019 41 0.000011812 35 6 71%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 100%
2021 39 0.000011511 34 5 74%
2022 36 0.000010641 27 9 50%
2023 26 0.000007852 26 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 22 6 57%

Explore other names

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  1. Galatea
  2. Galathia
  3. Galatia
  4. Galaxi
  5. Galaxie
  6. Galaxy (this page)
  7. Galdino
  8. Gale
  9. Galen
  10. Galena
  11. Galene