Entry № 3519 · Latin origin

Galla Galla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Galla Placidia (Western Roman empress)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "galla placidia (western roman empress)".

Galla is from the Latin Gallus — "a Gaul." Galla Placidia (388-450) was the Western Roman empress — daughter of Theodosius I, captured by the Visigoths under Alaric, married Alaric's successor Athaulf, and later ruled as regent for her son Valentinian III. Her mausoleum in Ravenna is a UNESCO masterpiece.

Featured in Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Galla Placidia (Western Roman empress) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Galla
Transliteration
Galla
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Galla stands.

Galla 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.

Gallas before her.

Real people
Galla Placidia
Western Roman empress.
388 – 450
In fiction
Galla
Featured in Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Names connected to Galla.

The number behind Galla.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Galla reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.