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NAMES LIKE GALEN
Same rise and fall as Galen, around the same years.
WHERE GALEN IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Galen ranked highest in California (#5,341). 50 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Galen name popularity
Galen has been given to 17,060 babies in the United States since 1889.
It peaked in 1949, when 441 babies got the name, and its best rank was #695 in 1949.
In 2025, 23 babies were named Galen (#9,389 in the country), 95% below the peak. That is down 51% from 2015.
About 3% of babies named Galen were girls and 97% were boys.
An estimated 12K people named Galen are alive in the US today, with a median age of 56.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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