Name meaning & stats
Gala
Gala means “man from Gaul”. 2,098 US babies since 1940, peak 1965.
What it means
“man from Gaul”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1965
2,098 US babies were named Gala between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Gala (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 6 Galileas spell it Gala
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1965)