Gala is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Gala is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Gala. In the SmartGenius ranking, Gala is #2,810 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gala.
If your name is Gala your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Gala never ranked higher than position 1,006 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Gala. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1965 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Gala because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gala was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Gala still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 60 times in the entire U.S. So, a Gala from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Gala are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Gala is registered in 14 states, among which are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California or Florida. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Gala live in Texas, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 41,046 would turn around if you called the name Gala across Texas.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Gala is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gala and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gala, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gala
Gala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
A
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
A
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gala sounds like this:
