Gaynell

Last seen for girls in 1991 at #13,147 · Last seen for boys in 1938 at #2,868
Given to girls 99.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1937 · 92 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,251
since 1886

Gaynell over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Gaynell has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201886peak #711, 1937girls
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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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1991#13,1475—
1990#11,4096—
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1986#7,7498—
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1984#8,1537—
1983#8,0477—
1982#8,2247—
1981#10,4115—
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1979#8,0617—
1978#6,9488—
1977#6,3409—
1976#3,67818—
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1974#3,69517—
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1971#2,47730—
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1969#2,39629—
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1964#1,59351—
1963#1,54753—
1962#1,30472—
1961#1,45459—
1960#1,35466—
1959#1,13089—
1958#1,22176—
1957#1,18779—
1956#1,05195—
1955#1,16773—
1954#1,00095—
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1951#98290—
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1938#73787#2,8687
1937#71192#2,19711
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five girls were named Gaynell! It came in at #1,108, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1886–1892, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Gaynell is popular in 1886

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Gaynell
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1991
  • Biggest jump: 829 spots in 1907 (#1,727 → #898)
  • Biggest drop: 778 spots in 1908 (#898 → #1,676)
Rise & fade · girls
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1937 at #711 (92 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 28 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 32 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1931–1949
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,566
  • Highest: 1 in 11,566 girls born in 1937 were named Gaynell (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 375,001 girls born in 1991 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 21.1% of all girls named Gaynell (896) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s10#1,108 (1886)#1,192
1890s61#786 (1897)#1,159
1900s105#880 (1904)#1,261
1910s369#834 (1917)#1,090
1920s511#918 (1928)#1,065
1930s754#711 (1937)#798
1940s886#726 (1940)#848
1950s896#849 (1952)#1,054
1960s452#1,304 (1962)#1,853
1970s162#2,477 (1971)#4,555
1980s34#7,749 (1986)#8,517
1990s11#11,409 (1990)#12,278

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.

Gaynell in 1886

girls
#1,108
5 births · 1 in 28,907 girls

Top girls' names in 1886

  1. #1Mary9,889
  2. #2Anna4,283
  3. #3Emma2,764
  4. #4Elizabeth2,680
  5. #5Minnie2,372
  6. #6Margaret2,275
  7. #7Ida2,049
  8. #8Bertha2,001
  9. #9Clara1,916
  10. #10Florence1,860
  11. #1,108Gaynell5
More about 1886

girls

144,533 girls got a published name in 1886; 1 in 28,907 of them was named Gaynell, which outranked 13.6% of the 1,282 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Gaynell
  1. #993Yvonne6
  2. #993Zadie6
  3. #993Zilla6
  4. #1,108Gaynell5
  5. #1,108Aida5
  6. #1,108Albertine5
  7. #1,108Almyra5

Tied with 174 names at #1,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1885
Risers
  1. ↑ 441Felicia#1,047 → #606
  2. ↑ 414Arminda#1,047 → #633
  3. ↑ 414Fronie#1,047 → #633
  4. ↑ 390Zettie#1,047 → #657
  5. ↑ 365Vergie#921 → #556
Fallers
  1. ↓ 532Cordia#576 → #1,108
  2. ↓ 532Dicie#576 → #1,108
  3. ↓ 532Johnie#576 → #1,108
  4. ↓ 500Philomene#608 → #1,108
  5. ↓ 479Malissie#629 → #1,108

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

See the top 100 for 1886 →