Gaylon
Gaylon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 673rd, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194994 births
- Best rank
- #673in 1940
- Since 1912
- 3,696people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,478 boys have been named Gaylon in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 218 girls have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gaylon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 94 | |
| 1920s | 207 | |
| 1930s | 448 | |
| 1940s | 727 | |
| 1950s | 788 | |
| 1960s | 522 | |
| 1970s | 338 | |
| 1980s | 185 | |
| 1990s | 114 | |
| 2000s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1949, its biggest year
Gaylon was the 711th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Gaylon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeraldpeak 1942
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Lindellpeak 1949
- Waynepeak 1947
- Jerroldpeak 1954
- Tommypeak 1947
- Rogerpeak 1953
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.