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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Gal

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#9,673

up +1,773 places

2025 births

10

up +2 births

All-time births

255

4% of them in 2025

More common than

76%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2022
16 births
Best rank
#3,805
in 1951
First recorded
1947
#5,590 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1998
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
32 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202216#7,089Peak
  2. 199514#6,371
  3. 202014#7,691
  4. 202113#8,185
  5. 200012#8,206

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,805 in 1951 · peak births 16 in 2022

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 37% boys■ 63% girls

148 boys · 255 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Gal has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.