Meaning: Its source is gala, a Greek name meaning "Milk."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Greek.

Narrative: In Greek mythology, Galatea was a statue by the sculptor Pygmalion, who fell in love with his beautiful creation. The goddess Aphrodite took pity on him and brought the statue to life.

George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, in which a professor falls in love with a cockney flower girl he has trained to speak and behave like a woman of fashion, was the basis for the popular musical My Fair Lady.