Gayle
Gayle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 124th, in 1951.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19512,826 births
- Best rank
- #124in 1951
- Since 1891
- 66,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
61,358 girls have been named Gayle in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 2,826 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 2,826 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,951 boys have also been given it, 7.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gayle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 70 | |
| 1900s | 121 | |
| 1910s | 716 | |
| 1920s | 1,025 | |
| 1930s | 5,034 | |
| 1940s | 16,198 | |
| 1950s | 23,727 | |
| 1960s | 10,117 | |
| 1970s | 2,708 | |
| 1980s | 1,056 | |
| 1990s | 369 | |
| 2000s | 130 | |
| 2010s | 57 | |
| 2020s | 30 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Gayle was the 124th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Gayle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gailpeak 1951
- Marciapeak 1951
- Georgannepeak 1952
- Bonitapeak 1950
- Sherrilpeak 1953
- Glendapeak 1950
- Janicepeak 1951
- Diannpeak 1947
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.