Gaylen

Where Gaylen comes from

Gaylen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Gaylen Pitts born
    American baseball player and coach
  3. 1949
    Peak, #707
    94 babies named Gaylen — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1950
    Gaylen Ross born
    American actress, documentary film producer
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,204.
  6. 2003
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gaylen Ross · American actress, documentary film producer, born 1950
  • Gaylen Pitts · American baseball player and coach, 1946–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.