Ghalia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- GHAH-lee-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Ghalia is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “precious, dear”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Ghalia mean?
Arabic
“precious, dear”
Is Ghalia a girl's or a boy's name?
Ghalia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ghalia in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Ghalia, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Ghalia of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Ghalia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
How popular is Ghalia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,115th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 126% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Ghalia, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Ghalia in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ghalia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
Names like Ghalia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Liyana, Hafsa, Ayra, Amira, Khadija, Rumaysa, Safiya, Halima, Ayah
Names related to Ghalia
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ghalia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ghalia, updated 20 October 2026.