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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#182 · 1 in 682
- Arkansas#213 · 1 in 742
- West Virginia#227 · 1 in 744
- Indiana#296 · 1 in 1,239
- Mississippi#322 · 1 in 1,153
Best ever in a state: #182 in Kentucky, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #182 | 29 | 1 in 682 |
| Arkansas | #213 | 17 | 1 in 742 |
| West Virginia | #227 | 9 | 1 in 744 |
| Indiana | #296 | 26 | 1 in 1,239 |
| Mississippi | #322 | 10 | 1 in 1,153 |
| Missouri | #325 | 20 | 1 in 1,399 |
| Kansas | #385 | 9 | 1 in 1,518 |
| Alabama | #442 | 11 | 1 in 2,003 |
| South Carolina | #446 | 10 | 1 in 2,050 |
| Ohio | #466 | 22 | 1 in 2,414 |
| Georgia | #502 | 20 | 1 in 2,562 |
| North Carolina | #519 | 19 | 1 in 2,682 |
| Tennessee | #539 | 13 | 1 in 2,762 |
| Illinois | #614 | 15 | 1 in 3,451 |
| Virginia | #622 | 11 | 1 in 3,490 |
| Florida | #657 | 23 | 1 in 4,145 |
| Oklahoma | #690 | 5 | 1 in 3,549 |
| Michigan | #705 | 10 | 1 in 4,150 |
| Minnesota | #737 | 6 | 1 in 4,155 |
| Wisconsin | #783 | 5 | 1 in 4,732 |
| Louisiana | #816 | 5 | 1 in 4,264 |
| Pennsylvania | #829 | 9 | 1 in 5,949 |
| New York | #1,130 | 10 | 1 in 8,718 |
| Texas | #1,132 | 19 | 1 in 9,406 |
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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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 182,237 of them was named Gatlin, which outranked 41.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,680Zoraida10
- #9,680Zoriana10
- #9,680Zyari10
- #10,383Gatlin9
- #10,383Aafiyah9
- #10,383Aaleah9
- #10,383Aalina9
- #11,231Aadriti8
- #11,231Aaisha8
- #11,231Aaravi8
Tied with 847 names at #10,383; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 4,864 of them was named Gatlin, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.