Gaylene
Gaylene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 930th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1956118 births
- Best rank
- #930in 1956
- Since 1931
- 2,570people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,570 girls have been named Gaylene in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 118 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 118 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 35%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Gaylene was the 930th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Gaylene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wendapeak 1956
- Maureenpeak 1957
- Donnapeak 1959
- Suannepeak 1954
- Conniepeak 1955
- Dremapeak 1959
- Lynnepeak 1960
- Sherillpeak 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.