Meaning not yet researched.
Gaylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #710 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #710 in 1949. No US babies were recorded with the name Gaylen in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #710 in 1949.
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Gaylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #710 in 1949 · most boys in one year: 94 (1949).
Fewer than five US boys were named Gaylen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #710, reached in 1949. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #764 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Gaylen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,363, reached in 1948. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18, in 1951. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,509 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gaylen in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 2,373 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 688 babies named Gaylen.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Gaylen.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Galen (17,060 babies since 1880), Gaylon (3,696 babies since 1880) and Gaylene (2,570 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Gaylen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,031 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,474 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,931 | 5 | #10,157 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,767 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,049 | 5 | #9,501 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,287 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,075 | 6 | #8,114 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,789 | 5 | #8,883 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,777 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,575 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,700 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,205 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,218 | 5 | #6,906 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,018 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,525 | 8 | #4,644 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,695 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,472 | 5 | #6,616 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,127 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,231 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,481 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,317 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,452 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,157 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,431 | 21 | #2,074 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,086 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,107 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,033 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,361 | 26 | #1,723 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,900 | 23 | #1,743 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,831 | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,729 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,036 | 23 | #1,629 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,848 | 30 | #1,417 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,099 | 32 | #1,390 |
| 1963 | — | — | 29 | #1,466 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,179 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,851 | 36 | #1,333 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,261 | 38 | #1,278 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,499 | 44 | #1,175 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,280 | 41 | #1,213 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,021 | 48 | #1,105 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,098 | 50 | #1,074 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,136 | 54 | #1,027 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,072 | 58 | #980 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,968 | 58 | #941 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,263 | 68 | #849 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,415 | 66 | #860 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,509 | 81 | #764 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,464 | 94 | #710 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,363 | 61 | #875 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,121 | 56 | #946 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,781 | 42 | #1,063 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,513 | 35 | #1,109 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,828 | 42 | #1,010 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,477 | 38 | #1,112 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,063 | 26 | #1,368 |
| 1941 | — | — | 42 | #995 |
| 1940 | — | — | 30 | #1,237 |
| 1939 | — | — | 38 | #1,040 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,011 | 28 | #1,257 |
| 1937 | — | — | 41 | #994 |
| 1936 | — | — | 28 | #1,255 |
| 1935 | — | — | 35 | #1,108 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,525 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,375 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,401 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,962 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,850 |
| 1929 | — | — | 23 | #1,539 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,903 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,119 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,237 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,395 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,974 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,357 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,542 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,846 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,603 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,820 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,566 |
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).