Gaelle
Gaelle was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,296 among girls’ names; 504 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaelle?
#5,296 among girls’ names, 2025
Gaelle rose from #9,135 in 2015 to #5,296 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 14.9 per million.
24 babies in 2025, the peak
Gaelle peaked in 2025, when 24 girls were given it, #5,296 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 18 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,296 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,478 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,031 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,200 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,562 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,023 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,816 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,845 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,903 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,738 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,135 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,807 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,211 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,239 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,920 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,400 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,937 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,862 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,077 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,766 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,033 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,961 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,146 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,226 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,078 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,590 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,672 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,709 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,223 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,957 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,286 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,068 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,963 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,850 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,165 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,587 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,042 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,577 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,092 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,841 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,941 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,926 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gaelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gaelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 498 Americans named Gaelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 936 people named Gaelle (924 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 411 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 100,114 babies since 1880, Gaelle is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 37 babies (65%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gaelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gaelle and names like it
- Compare Gaelle and GayleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGaelle peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Gaelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gaelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.