Entry № 3499 · Hebrew origin

Gal Gal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"A wave"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a wave".

Gal is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning a wave.

A wave — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Gal
Transliteration
Gal
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Gal stands.

Gal does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gals before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gal.

The number behind Gal.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gal reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.