Gaylen
Gaylen is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 710th, in 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194994 births
- Best rank
- #710in 1949
- Since 1915
- 2,373people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,025 boys have been named Gaylen in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1950s alone account for 28%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 348 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1949, its biggest year
Gaylen was the 710th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Gaylen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gaylandpeak 1950
- Rogerpeak 1953
- Jerroldpeak 1954
- Gaylonpeak 1949
- Waynepeak 1947
- Rodgerpeak 1949
- Ronaldpeak 1947
- Danniepeak 1953
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.