Gali
A Slavic name meaning "my wave". Fewer than 100 people in Poland carry it, most of them women, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Gali Pronunciation
Gali is pronounced GAH-lee (/ˈgali/).
What Gali means
Where Gali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gali carries a Slavic origin and a Jewish association. The meaning set down for it is "my wave", in Polish "fala". A wave moves and returns. The name points at water without naming a place.
Jewish families who used Gali could hear the Hebrew word gal in it, meaning a wave, closed by an ending that reads as "mine". The two threads, Slavic and Jewish, meet on the same short sense. That is why "my wave" sits beside a Slavic root here rather than behind it.
On a class register in a Polish szkoła, Gali is brief and easy to call out. It takes no diminutive and no variant in the record given here. The name ends where it began, on "fala", the wave that is "mine".
How many people are named Gali
1 in 253301 women in Poland is named Gali. 97 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3518 among female names.
Gali's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.