Name meaning & stats
Galen
Galen (Ancient Greek origin). 14,063 US babies since 1940, peak 1949.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Ancient Greek
In US birth records
Peak year: 1949
14,063 US babies were named Galen between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Galen (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1949)