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How popular is “Gaylen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gaylen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gaylen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gaylen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gaylen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gaylen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 -100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 -100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 -100%
1929 23 0.000010492 23 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 15 0.000007128 15 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 21 0.000010112 21 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 28 0.000013477 28 -100%
1937 41 0.000019243 41 -100%
1938 34 0.000015367 6 28 -65%
1939 38 0.000017246 38 -100%
1940 30 0.000013028 30 -100%
1941 42 0.000017238 42 -100%
1942 36 0.000013178 10 26 -44%
1943 52 0.000018423 14 38 -46%
1944 53 0.000019702 11 42 -58%
1945 48 0.000018093 13 35 -46%
1946 50 0.000015648 8 42 -68%
1947 68 0.000018877 12 56 -65%
1948 79 0.000022882 18 61 -54%
1949 104 0.000029844 10 94 -81%
1950 91 0.000025975 10 81 -78%
1951 84 0.000022803 18 66 -57%
1952 80 0.000021064 12 68 -70%
1953 63 0.000016348 5 58 -84%
1954 67 0.000016831 9 58 -73%
1955 68 0.000016936 14 54 -59%
1956 65 0.000015765 15 50 -54%
1957 58 0.000013802 10 48 -66%
1958 55 0.000013305 14 41 -49%
1959 57 0.000013709 13 44 -54%
1960 53 0.000012759 15 38 -43%
1961 48 0.000011588 12 36 -50%
1962 44 0.000010904 44 -100%
1963 29 0.000007327 29 -100%
1964 37 0.000009517 5 32 -73%
1965 35 0.000009654 5 30 -71%
1966 29 0.000008344 6 23 -59%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 -100%
1968 26 0.000007696 7 19 -46%
1969 29 0.000008345 6 23 -59%
1970 32 0.000008873 6 26 -63%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 29 0.000009539 8 21 -45%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 -100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 6 5 9%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 8 8 0%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 5 5 0%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 13 0.000003384 8 5 23%
1994 15 0.000004035 9 6 20%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 14 0.000003839 9 5 29%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 5 5 0%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Gayleen
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  8. Gaylia
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