Gaylene

Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386

Peak · girls
1956 · 118 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,570
since 1931

Gaylene over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Gaylene has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201931peak #929, 1956girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1995#13,3865
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1984#8,1537
1983#8,0477
1982#9,2376
1981#10,4115
1980#10,3925
1979#5,42712
1978#6,9488
1977#5,21312
1976#4,36314
1975#3,77417
1974#3,86316
1973#3,23320
1972#2,17335
1971#2,17537
1970#1,93144
1969#1,98040
1968#1,57553
1967#1,42860
1966#1,35165
1965#1,27471
1964#1,38366
1963#1,22680
1962#1,12693
1961#1,13294
1960#1,11794
1959#1,066100
1958#1,08993
1957#1,026104
1956#929118
1955#1,10282
1954#1,16473
1953#1,02688
1952#1,02284
1951#1,03181
1950#1,07673
1949#1,10467
1948#1,11664
1947#1,05970
1946#1,25747
1945#1,18744
1944#1,31537
1943#1,04858
1942#1,27839
1941#1,27136
1940#1,27234
1939#1,30832
1938#1,11142
1937#1,53924
1936#1,26732
1935#2,00616
1934#1,34429
1933#2,16114
1932#2,49012
1931#3,8486
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First appearance
1931

The first year at least five girls were named Gaylene! It came in at #3,848, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1985–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Gaylene is popular in 1931

No state had 5 or more girls named Gaylene in 1931, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Gaylene
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1995
  • Biggest jump: 173 spots in 1956 (#1,102 → #929)
  • Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1957 (#929 → #1,026)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1931
  • Peaked 1956 at #929 (118 births)
  • Births halved by 1968, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1956
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,014
  • Highest: 1 in 17,014 girls born in 1956 were named Gaylene (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,710 girls born in 1995 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 34.9% of all girls named Gaylene (896) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s207#1,111 (1938)#1,897
1940s496#1,048 (1943)#1,191
1950s896#929 (1956)#1,053
1960s716#1,117 (1960)#1,359
1970s215#1,931 (1970)#3,910
1980s30#8,047 (1983)#9,248
1990s10#12,958 (1990)#13,172

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Gaylene in 1931

girls
#3,848
6 births · 1 in 177,455 girls

Top girls' names in 1931

  1. #1Mary60,299
  2. #2Betty36,105
  3. #3Dorothy26,524
  4. #4Barbara21,804
  5. #5Joan19,119
  6. #6Helen17,664
  7. #7Margaret17,332
  8. #8Patricia16,469
  9. #9Shirley14,405
  10. #10Doris13,629
  11. #3,848Gaylene6
More about 1931

girls

1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 177,455 of them was named Gaylene, which outranked 22.7% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Gaylene
  1. #3,497Yolonda7
  2. #3,497Zela7
  3. #3,497Zenora7
  4. #3,848Gaylene6
  5. #3,848Adabelle6
  6. #3,848Adair6
  7. #3,848Addis6
  8. #4,331Adalene5
  9. #4,331Adean5
  10. #4,331Adelma5

Tied with 482 names at #3,848; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1930
Risers
  1. ↑ 857Joretta#1,320 → #463
  2. ↑ 519Joetta#1,460 → #941
  3. ↑ 483Sondra#1,031 → #548
  4. ↑ 465Celine#1,460 → #995
  5. ↑ 343Lynne#1,274 → #931
Fallers
  1. ↓ 377Margo#937 → #1,314
  2. ↓ 349Rachael#894 → #1,243
  3. ↓ 317Evelyne#926 → #1,243
  4. ↓ 287Vivien#971 → #1,258
  5. ↓ 283Ardeth#629 → #912

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1931 →