How Many People Are Named Galileo?
people named Galileo are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 657,278 people in the US has this name
Based on 530 babies named Galileo in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
44 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Galileo in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Galileo alive today is about 10 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 15 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Galileo first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2022, to 44 babies. In 2025, 25 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Galileo has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #2,886, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #4,171.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,171 |
| Best rank | #2,886 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,746 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Galileo alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Galileo were born in California than in any other state: about 95 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Galileo was given about 6.4 times as often in California.
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