Girls' name · since 2019
Gaella
Since 2019, U.S. Social Security records show 22 babies named Gaella, peaking in 2019. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #44,689 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,718 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
22 babies have been named Gaella since 2019, making it today's #16718 girls' name.
Gaella has 22 recorded births among girls since 2019, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16718 as of the latest data, more common than 3% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.
- #44,689 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,718 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 22 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gaella ranks #44,689 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,718 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 22 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #44,689 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,718 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Gaella's 22 recorded births place it above 37.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Gaella compares
22 8th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Gaella's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Gaella | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 22 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Gaella's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Gaella splits its recorded history at 2023: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2022 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2019 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Gaella popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2019)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Gaella by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 73% of the file).
2020s was Gaella's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 73% of all-time use.
Gaella births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (73% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Gaella draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.