Meaning not yet researched.
Gatlin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 217 in 2025. Its best rank was #725 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #725 in 2022; #1,026 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gatlin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,026 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #725.
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Gatlin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 217 boys in 2025. Peak: #725 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 359 (2022).
In 2025, 217 US boys were named Gatlin, making it the 1,026th most common boys’ name of the year, down 137 places from #889 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 267 boys named Gatlin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #725, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 359. For comparison, it was #1,061 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gatlin in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 4,511 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,801 babies named Gatlin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,659 US boys were named Gatlin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 359. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,871 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gatlin ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #272 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Gatlyn, Gatlynn and Gatlen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gatlyn (295), Gatlynn (73), Gatlen (39), Gaitlin (28), Gattlin (20).
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 Gatlin 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #272 | #304 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #337 | #579 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #382 | #562 |
| Indiana | 19 | #384 | #519 |
| Missouri | 13 | #468 | #428 |
| Alabama | 10 | #492 | #644 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #498 | #413 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #659 | #928 |
| Georgia | 15 | #659 | #680 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #734 | #356 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #784 | #498 |
| Michigan | 9 | #793 | #1,134 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #822 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #965 | #959 |
| Ohio | 8 | #970 | #867 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,143 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,179 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,185 | #1,012 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,218 | #1,133 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 217 | #1,026 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,104 | 267 | #889 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,020 | 303 | #809 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,652 | 359 | #725 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,388 | 319 | #777 |
| 2020 | — | — | 301 | #779 |
| 2019 | — | — | 265 | #847 |
| 2018 | — | — | 262 | #847 |
| 2017 | — | — | 215 | #965 |
| 2016 | — | — | 151 | #1,238 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,365 | 187 | #1,061 |
| 2014 | — | — | 159 | #1,175 |
| 2013 | — | — | 132 | #1,310 |
| 2012 | — | — | 116 | #1,433 |
| 2011 | — | — | 104 | #1,528 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,841 |
| 2009 | — | — | 84 | #1,792 |
| 2008 | — | — | 87 | #1,746 |
| 2007 | — | — | 68 | #2,041 |
| 2006 | — | — | 63 | #2,087 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,641 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,259 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,245 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,166 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,639 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,267 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,417 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,517 |
| 1997 | — | — | 39 | #2,209 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,716 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,228 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,799 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,311 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,485 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,939 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,987 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,618 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,997 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,993 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,598 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,155 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,613 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,693 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,613 |
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).