Galen

girls:

560 births since 1938

#5156 (10th percentile)

boys:

16.4k births since 1889

#902 (80th percentile)

overall:

17k births since 1889

#1980 (74th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Galen".

1889 2023 18892023

Key Statistics

Total Births
560
Peak Births
25
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1938
Peak Percentile
2.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#589
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
16,429
Peak Births
433
Peak Year
1949
First Recorded
1889
Peak Percentile
47.5%
Current Percentile
3.6%
Peak Rank
#202
Current Rank
#878
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Galen

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Galen. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Galen is pronounced as GAY-luhn.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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GAY-leen (2 syllables)
10 names 4.2k births
G EY1 L IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.