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How popular is “Galileo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Galileo” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Galileo” 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 “Galileo” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Galileo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Galileo” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 -100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 -100%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 24 0.000006711 24 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 30 0.000008643 30 -100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 -100%
2021 38 0.000011216 38 -100%
2022 44 0.000013006 44 -100%
2023 27 0.000008154 27 -100%
2024 33 0.000009914 33 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Galileo:

  1. Galicia
  2. Galilea
  3. Galileah
  4. Galilee
  5. Galileia
  6. Galileo (this page)
  7. Galin
  8. Galina
  9. Galinda
  10. Galisa
  11. Galit