Meaning not yet researched.
Gayle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #124 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #124 in 1951. No US babies were recorded with the name Gayle in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #124 in 1951.
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Gayle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #124 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 2,826 (1951).
Fewer than five US girls were named Gayle in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #124, reached in 1951. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,826. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #133 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gayle in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 9 babies. In all, 66,308 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 24,517 babies named Gayle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 62 US girls were named Gayle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gale (32,343 babies since 1880), Gail (210,698 babies since 1880) and Gael (49,752 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gaelle are summarised on this page.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gaelle (504).
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 Gayle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,052 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,540 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,944 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,072 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,368 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,930 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,533 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,168 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,545 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,771 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,474 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,961 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,211 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,262 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,417 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,773 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,205 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,989 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,920 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,054 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,742 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,857 | 7 | #6,462 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,497 | 9 | #4,600 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,351 | 11 | #3,890 |
| 1984 | 104 | #1,239 | 7 | #5,164 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1982 | 149 | #990 | — | — |
| 1981 | 146 | #999 | 10 | #3,945 |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1979 | 157 | #940 | 9 | #4,185 |
| 1978 | 174 | #850 | — | — |
| 1977 | 170 | #863 | 16 | #2,700 |
| 1976 | 193 | #751 | 11 | #3,348 |
| 1975 | 184 | #771 | 9 | #3,749 |
| 1974 | 263 | #600 | 9 | #3,656 |
| 1973 | 263 | #599 | 17 | #2,348 |
| 1972 | 322 | #527 | 16 | #2,360 |
| 1971 | 446 | #458 | 15 | #2,489 |
| 1970 | 535 | #419 | 17 | #2,235 |
| 1969 | 618 | #373 | 20 | #1,884 |
| 1968 | 652 | #347 | 15 | #2,139 |
| 1967 | 695 | #332 | 15 | #2,068 |
| 1966 | 776 | #318 | 36 | #1,269 |
| 1965 | 956 | #281 | 42 | #1,171 |
| 1964 | 1,105 | #271 | 25 | #1,594 |
| 1963 | 1,108 | #270 | 20 | #1,811 |
| 1962 | 1,266 | #250 | 33 | #1,375 |
| 1961 | 1,448 | #229 | 41 | #1,240 |
| 1960 | 1,493 | #220 | 40 | #1,244 |
| 1959 | 1,827 | #195 | 60 | #999 |
| 1958 | 1,947 | #186 | 63 | #959 |
| 1957 | 2,190 | #173 | 57 | #1,007 |
| 1956 | 2,287 | #163 | 64 | #938 |
| 1955 | 2,483 | #146 | 77 | #840 |
| 1954 | 2,497 | #147 | 73 | #855 |
| 1953 | 2,666 | #136 | 95 | #736 |
| 1952 | 2,636 | #135 | 101 | #695 |
| 1951 | 2,826 | #124 | 103 | #691 |
| 1950 | 2,368 | #133 | 97 | #696 |
| 1949 | 2,293 | #137 | 118 | #630 |
| 1948 | 2,066 | #141 | 126 | #604 |
| 1947 | 2,485 | #127 | 134 | #587 |
| 1946 | 1,927 | #141 | 146 | #531 |
| 1945 | 1,491 | #156 | 122 | #540 |
| 1944 | 1,233 | #173 | 135 | #525 |
| 1943 | 1,423 | #168 | 131 | #546 |
| 1942 | 1,188 | #184 | 102 | #627 |
| 1941 | 1,007 | #187 | 132 | #515 |
| 1940 | 1,085 | #177 | 139 | #496 |
| 1939 | 843 | #206 | 124 | #509 |
| 1938 | 803 | #212 | 149 | #476 |
| 1937 | 720 | #224 | 145 | #466 |
| 1936 | 717 | #228 | 181 | #408 |
| 1935 | 705 | #237 | 150 | #464 |
| 1934 | 476 | #282 | 169 | #433 |
| 1933 | 239 | #415 | 125 | #503 |
| 1932 | 225 | #441 | 114 | #553 |
| 1931 | 167 | #499 | 94 | #612 |
| 1930 | 139 | #580 | 89 | #658 |
| 1929 | 108 | #673 | 82 | #681 |
| 1928 | 119 | #646 | 84 | #691 |
| 1927 | 96 | #732 | 87 | #699 |
| 1926 | 98 | #733 | 68 | #796 |
| 1925 | 100 | #737 | 78 | #740 |
| 1924 | 107 | #720 | 78 | #755 |
| 1923 | 87 | #783 | 67 | #823 |
| 1922 | 102 | #720 | 58 | #918 |
| 1921 | 106 | #712 | 57 | #931 |
| 1920 | 102 | #719 | 57 | #917 |
| 1919 | 113 | #657 | 41 | #1,068 |
| 1918 | 125 | #637 | 58 | #875 |
| 1917 | 127 | #606 | 57 | #850 |
| 1916 | 107 | #659 | 59 | #803 |
| 1915 | 84 | #725 | 42 | #969 |
| 1914 | 55 | #781 | 28 | #1,082 |
| 1913 | 39 | #846 | 21 | #1,124 |
| 1912 | 35 | #850 | 19 | #1,071 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,137 | 6 | #1,612 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,182 | 5 | #1,682 |
| 1909 | 18 | #976 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,945 | 9 | #980 |
| 1907 | 20 | #854 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,120 | 5 | #1,309 |
| 1905 | 20 | #832 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,305 | 6 | #1,122 |
| 1902 | 18 | #829 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,358 | 7 | #1,091 |
| 1899 | 12 | #945 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,133 | 7 | #922 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1891 | 9 | #965 | — | — |
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).