Galit
From Hebrew, where it means "wave". Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns since 2000, so meeting one would stay with you.
Galit Pronunciation
Galit is pronounced GAH-leet (/ˈgalit/).
What Galit means
Where Galit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Galit comes from Hebrew, built on the root gal (גל), the everyday word for a wave of water. The ending -it makes it feminine, so Galit reads as something like "little wave" or "she of the wave." The short meaning kept in Polish is plain: fala. The name belongs to a wave of modern Hebrew names that took ordinary nature words and gave them to daughters.
Its association is Jewish, and it grew common in Israel across the twentieth century, when parents reached for Hebrew vocabulary rather than older biblical figures. No diminutive tradition attaches to it, and it has no cross-gender pair. Galit stands on its own.
A Polish teacher reading a class register might pause at it, since it follows no Slavic pattern and has no imieniny on the Polish calendar. That absence is information in itself. Galit does not become fala on a birth form. It stays Galit, and the meaning goes with the person who carries the wave.
How many people are named Galit
1 in 245042 women in Poland is named Galit. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3636 among female names.
Galit as a middle name
Galit is a first name for 92 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2269th, between Gala (11) and Gaurav (11).
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#2267 Funmilayo11
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#2268 Gala11
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#2269 Galit11
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#2270 Gaurav11
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#2271 Gay11