Meaning not yet researched.
Gael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,860 in 2025. Its best rank was #86 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.8% of babies named Gael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#86 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Gael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,860 boys in 2025. Peak: #86 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 3,872 (2024).
In 2025, 3,860 US boys were named Gael, making it the 86th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3 places from #89 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 3,872 boys named Gael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #86, reached in this year, 2025. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,872, in 2024. For comparison, it was #220 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gael in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 49,752 US babies have been given the name, 1.4% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 21,700 babies named Gael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31,963 US boys were named Gael; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 3,872. In 2025 that was about 1 in 443 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gael ranked highest in California in 2025, at #33 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 15 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Gail (210,698 babies since 1880), Gayle (66,308 babies since 1880) and Gale (32,343 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Breton, Galician and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 831 | #33 | #106 |
| Texas | 775 | #34 | #91 |
| Nevada | 47 | #56 | #125 |
| New Mexico | 28 | #57 | #81 |
| Arizona | 115 | #59 | #136 |
| New Jersey | 130 | #67 | #275 |
| Illinois | 156 | #68 | #188 |
| Delaware | 14 | #71 | — |
| Maryland | 66 | #81 | #403 |
| Oklahoma | 48 | #86 | #296 |
| Massachusetts | 82 | #87 | #418 |
| Colorado | 75 | #91 | #159 |
| Florida | 230 | #96 | #333 |
| Georgia | 117 | #97 | #265 |
| New York | 176 | #99 | #312 |
| Nebraska | 25 | #101 | #364 |
| Arkansas | 32 | #106 | #504 |
| Utah | 47 | #111 | #349 |
| North Carolina | 108 | #113 | #309 |
| Tennessee | 78 | #120 | #505 |
| Kansas | 31 | #127 | #248 |
| Washington | 61 | #131 | #291 |
| Alabama | 42 | #134 | #422 |
| Oregon | 28 | #146 | #232 |
| Idaho | 19 | #147 | #407 |
| Virginia | 61 | #151 | #503 |
| Minnesota | 42 | #160 | #513 |
| South Carolina | 36 | #164 | #420 |
| Iowa | 25 | #173 | #473 |
| Kentucky | 32 | #174 | — |
| South Dakota | 8 | #176 | — |
| Connecticut | 19 | #181 | — |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #185 | — |
| Indiana | 45 | #189 | #325 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #193 | #555 |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #213 | #491 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #214 | — |
| Ohio | 52 | #242 | #1,019 |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | #252 | #517 |
| Michigan | 32 | #302 | #489 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #346 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #378 | #578 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,778 | 3,860 | #86 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,613 | 3,872 | #89 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,196 | 3,629 | #100 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,204 | 3,509 | #104 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,566 | 3,513 | #109 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,547 | 3,262 | #112 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,721 | 2,900 | #133 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,924 | 2,931 | #132 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,727 | 2,239 | #178 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,146 | 2,248 | #178 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,480 | 1,783 | #220 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,238 | 1,809 | #213 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,284 | 2,307 | #177 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,591 | 2,745 | #146 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,678 | 690 | #410 |
| 2010 | — | — | 692 | #408 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,003 | #319 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,344 | 1,119 | #298 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,148 | 1,168 | #296 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,401 | 1,026 | #314 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,675 | 1,102 | #297 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,213 | 751 | #370 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,869 | 443 | #526 |
| 2002 | — | — | 246 | #722 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,190 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,490 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,426 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,594 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,061 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,676 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,081 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,019 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,713 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,004 | 17 | #3,659 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,294 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,685 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,358 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,842 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,908 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,524 | 8 | #2,947 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,360 | 7 | #3,110 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,835 | 16 | #1,946 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,525 | 7 | #2,999 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,151 | 7 | #2,945 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,013 | 6 | #3,297 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,947 | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,457 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,581 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,405 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).