Gaelen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gaelen

The Social Security Administration has registered 156 babies named Gaelen between 1982 and 2008, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gaelen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Gaelen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18 additional births since 1967.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaelen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 77 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Gaelen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaelen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 156 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.