Galen Boy Name

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The name Galen is of Greek origin, and means healer. The table below indicates the number of times the name Galen has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Galen**
Use of the Name Galen for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
14,514	7,539	2,614	295	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Galen has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Galen first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1889, which is the first year shown on the table. Galen last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Galen**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1889	917	6
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895	823	8
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906	816	10
1907	954	9
1908
1909
1910	948	12
1911
1912	684	39
1913	724	41
1914	647	61
1915	760	62
1916	687	75
1917	753	69
1918	767	72
1919	696	81
1920	723	81
1921	671	94
1922	691	90
1923	593	113
1924	651	98
1925	606	109
1926	618	103
1927	556	123
1928	608	102
1929	528	122
1930	597	103
1931	536	118
1932	530	121
1933	493	129
1934	494	136
1935	480	140
1936	477	139
1937	483	139
1938	462	157
1939	435	170
1940	446	169
1941	450	170
1942	427	206
1943	443	203
1944	413	211
1945	422	200
1946	435	212
1947	401	295
1948	365	342
1949	330	430
1950	374	329
1951	354	373
1952	397	302
1953	404	294
1954	409	307
1955	428	292
1956	448	283
1957	480	263
1958	498	244
1959	499	247
1960	536	219
1961	527	226
1962	540	215
1963	557	200
1964	534	215
1965	595	163
1966	574	174
1967	569	174
1968	563	182
1969	574	187
1970	555	213
1971	600	191
1972	583	185
1973	642	154
1974	698	139
1975	601	182
1976	715	137
1977	734	135
1978	674	154
1979	698	151
1980	693	157
1981	705	150
1982	780	126
1983	724	142
1984	708	151
1985	699	159
1986	656	184
1987	721	160
1988	775	148
1989	781	161
1990	766	176
1991	828	154
1992	866	148
1993	858	152
1994	880	151
1995	888	152
1996	917	143
Totals:		14,514		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Galen as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Galen appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 90 times during the last 125 years.

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Galen Boy Name

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