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What does the name Gala mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Gala

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Russian
25%
Arabic
25%
Spanish
25%
Slavic
13%
French
13%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. A user from New York, U.S. says the name Gala is of French origin and means "Festivity".
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Ga"la
Pomp, show, or festivity.

Etymology: F. gala show, pomp, fr. It. gala finery, gala; of German origin. See Gallant

Other Dictionary Sources
  1. A gay festivity
    Synonyms: blowout, gala affair, and jamboree
Wiktionary

From French gala or Italian gala, both from Medieval Latin, Latinized form of Frankish *wala (“good, well”).

  1. (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.
  2. (countable) A showy and festive party.

gala was also found in the following language(s): Dutch, Faroese, French, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kilivila, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Old Norse, Old Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh

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Notable Persons Named Gala

Notable Persons Named Gala

Gala

Gala is an electronic dance music, dance music, pop music, and eurodance singing and songwriter. Her most notable accomplishments were from 1996 to present. Gala was given the name Gala Rizzatto on September 6th, 1972 in Milan.

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Gala Gordon

Gala Gordon is an actress, model, actor, and model (people). Her ongoing career started in 2012. Gala was born on March 26th, 1991 in Bryanston, Dorset, UK.

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Gala Gonzalez

Gala was born on March 16th, 1986 in A Coruña.

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Gala Galaction

Gala Galaction was a fiction, fantasy, travel literature, and biography priest, theologian, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist, translator, diarist, and theology. His career lasted from 1900 to 1961. Gala was born on April 16th, 1879 in Didești. He passed away on March 8th, 1961.

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Gala León García

Gala León García is a tennis player. Gala was born on December 23rd, 1973 in Madrid, Spain.

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Gala Evora

Gala was born on February 8th, 1983.

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Notable Persons With the Last Name Gala

Notable Persons With the Last Name Gala

Gala

Gala is an electronic dance music, dance music, pop music, and eurodance singing and songwriter. Her most notable accomplishments were from 1996 to present. Gala was given the name Gala Rizzatto on September 6th, 1972 in Milan.

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Gabe Gala

Gabe Gala is a soccer player for the Toronto FC, Mississauga Eagles FC, North York Astros, Canadian Soccer League, and Canada men's national under-20 soccer team. Gabe was born on June 29th, 1989 in Yola, Nigeria. Gabe is also known as Gala and Gabriel.

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Mumin Gala

Mumin was born on September 6th, 1986 in Djibouti (city).

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Sofía Gala

Sofía Gala is an actress. Her most notable accomplishments were from 1995 to 1995. Sofía was given the name Sofía Gala Castiglione on January 24th, 1987 in Buenos Aires.

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Rosa Gala

Rosa Gala is a basketball player for the Primeiro de Agosto and C.D. Primeiro de Agosto (basketball) in the Angola Women's Basketball League and FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup. Her most notable accomplishments were from 2007 to present. Rosa was born on April 17th, 1995 in Lubango.

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Antonio Gala

Antonio Gala is an athlete for the Casertana F.C.

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Ethnicity Distribution

Ethnicity Gala U.S.
█  White 50.96% 64.26%
█  African American 2.47% 11.96%
█  Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 29.95% 4.85%
█  American Indian and Alaska Native 1.19% 0.69%
█  Two or More Ethnicities 1.46% 1.76%
█  Hispanic or Latino 13.97% 16.26%

Of Last Name Gala

People with the last name Gala are most frequently White, Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander, or Hispanic or Latino

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Fun Facts about the name Gala

  • How Popular is the name Gala? Gala is the 7,447th most popular name of all time. As a last name Gala was the 23,268th most popular name in 2010.
  • How many people with the first name Gala have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,811 babies born with the first name Gala in the United States. That's more than enough people named Gala to occupy the territory of Christmas Island (Australia) with an estimated population of 1,462 (as of June 30, 2010).
  • What year were 5 or more babies first named Gala? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1919 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
  • When was Gala first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Gala is Friday, January 2nd, 1880.
  • What year had the most people named Gala born? The highest recorded use of the first name Gala was in 1965 with a total of 99 babies.
  • Random Gala Factoid: According to the 1947 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Gala is not a popular baby girl's name in Texas. Imagine that, only 5 babies in Texas have the same name in 1947.
  • Weird things about the name Gala: The name spelled backwards is Alag. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Agal. How do you pronounce that?
  • How many people have the last name Gala? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 1,095 people with the last name Gala.
  • How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Gala? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Gala as their last name since less than 1 person in 270k people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!
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