Gale
Gale is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 245th, in 1957.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19571,210 births
- Best rank
- #245in 1957
- Since 1893
- 32,330people given the name
The story in the numbers
19,906 girls have been named Gale in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 1,210 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,210 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 48%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Gale is used for both sexes: 38% of its bearers are boys (12,424), most of them born around 1947.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gale | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 34 | |
| 1910s | 168 | |
| 1920s | 331 | |
| 1930s | 1,040 | |
| 1940s | 4,900 | |
| 1950s | 9,479 | |
| 1960s | 2,997 | |
| 1970s | 650 | |
| 1980s | 191 | |
| 1990s | 58 | |
| 2000s | 13 | |
| 2010s | 24 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Gale was the 245th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Gale
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dianepeak 1955
- Sheryllpeak 1955
- Gailpeak 1951
- Gaylepeak 1951
- Rosannepeak 1954
- Glindapeak 1951
- Sherrilpeak 1953
- Pamellapeak 1954
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.