Gatlin
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #1,026 for boys in 2025, 217 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 359 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,471since 1981
Gatlin over time
Rank among boys' names. Gatlin has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,026 | 217 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #888 | 267 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #809 | 303 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #725 | 359 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #777 | 319 |
| 2020 | — | #779 | 301 | |
| 2019 | — | #845 | 265 | |
| 2018 | — | #846 | 262 | |
| 2017 | — | #965 | 215 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,234 | 151 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,061 | 187 |
| 2014 | — | #1,174 | 159 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,305 | 132 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,428 | 116 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,524 | 104 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,834 | 79 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,789 | 84 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,736 | 87 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,034 | 68 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,082 | 63 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,635 | 83 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,238 | 48 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,155 | 49 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,398 | 37 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,507 | 34 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,201 | 39 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,705 | 55 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,210 | 36 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,915 | 22 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,968 | 38 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gatlin! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Gatlin is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#333 · 1 in 1,545
- Missouri#335 · 1 in 1,611
- Oklahoma#435 · 1 in 1,934
- Tennessee#460 · 1 in 2,591
- South Carolina#478 · 1 in 2,625
Best ever in a state: #182 in Kentucky, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #333 | 14 | 1 in 1,545 |
| Missouri | #335 | 19 | 1 in 1,611 |
| Oklahoma | #435 | 10 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Tennessee | #460 | 14 | 1 in 2,591 |
| South Carolina | #478 | 8 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Arkansas | #482 | 6 | 1 in 2,286 |
| Mississippi | #538 | 5 | 1 in 2,667 |
| Ohio | #593 | 15 | 1 in 3,891 |
| North Carolina | #603 | 13 | 1 in 3,948 |
| Alabama | #728 | 5 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Indiana | #735 | 7 | 1 in 4,921 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,369 |
| Illinois | #898 | 9 | 1 in 6,881 |
| Michigan | #970 | 6 | 1 in 7,737 |
| Texas | #986 | 20 | 1 in 8,808 |
| Florida | #1,032 | 11 | 1 in 8,788 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,065 | 6 | 1 in 9,701 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gatlin
- 138 spots since 2024 (#888 → #1,026)
- 247 spots since 2020 (#779 → #1,026)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#1,061 → #1,026)
- Biggest jump: 269 spots in 2017 (#1,234 → #965)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 2025 (#888 → #1,026)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2022 at #725 (359 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2017–2024
- Highest: 1 in 4,864 boys born in 2022 were named Gatlin (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,871 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.5% of all boys named Gatlin (1,766) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 74 | #2,942 (1987) | #4,847 |
| 1990s | 349 | #1,705 (1996) | #2,343 |
| 2000s | 612 | #1,635 (2005) | #2,078 |
| 2010s | 1,670 | #845 (2019) | #1,222 |
| 2020s | 1,766 | #725 (2022) | #834 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gatlin in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,609 of them was named Gatlin, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).