Gal
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Given to girls 63.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1951 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 255since 1947
Gal over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
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| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #6,226 | 12 |
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| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1947
The first year at least five girls were named Gal! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gal is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Gal in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Gal
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,665 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #9,457)
- 1,898 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #9,457)
- 5,025 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1951 at #3,714 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1952, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 102,508
- Highest: 1 in 102,508 girls born in 2022 were named Gal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,714 in 1951, was only 1 in 200,095 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 28.6% of all girls named Gal (73) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2015
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,270 |
| 1950s | 34 | #3,714 (1951) | #4,885 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,567 (1961) | #6,567 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 22 | #9,825 (1987) | #10,846 |
| 1990s | 43 | #6,257 (1995) | #11,297 |
| 2000s | 34 | #8,027 (2000) | #11,507 |
| 2010s | 34 | #8,617 (2018) | #11,559 |
| 2020s | 73 | #6,984 (2022) | #8,605 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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