Galen is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Galen is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Galen. In the SmartGenius ranking, Galen is #2,264 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 10,703 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Galen. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Galen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Galen 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 Galen, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Galen
Galen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
A
L
E
N
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
E
N
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. Galen sounds like this:
