Gatlin
Gatlin was given to 217 boys in 2025, #1,026 among boys’ names; 4,511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,460 Americans named Gatlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gatlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gatlin?
#1,026 among boys’ names, 2025
Gatlin rose from #1,061 in 2015 to #1,026 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.13 per 1,000.
368 babies in 2022, the peak
Gatlin peaked in 2022, when 368 babies were given it (359 boys, #725 among boys’ names). The 217 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 217 | #1,026 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 267 | #889 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 303 | #809 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 359 | #725 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 319 | #777 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 301 | #779 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 265 | #847 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 262 | #847 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 215 | #965 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,238 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187 | #1,061 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,175 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,310 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 84 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 87 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,041 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,639 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,241 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,162 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,634 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,263 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,414 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,514 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,206 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,713 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,223 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,305 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,933 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,982 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,612 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,992 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,989 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,611 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gatlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gatlin has been given almost only to boys: 40 girls in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gatlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gatlin, and how old are they?
4,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,511 Americans ever recorded as Gatlin. The median Gatlin alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,450 people named Gatlin (49 women and girls, 2,401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,150 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Gatlin born?
The states with the most babies named Gatlin are Indiana, Texas and Georgia, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 19 | #384 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,185 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 15 | #659 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #659 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 13 | #468 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,218 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 10 | #492 | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 10 | #337 | 2.5× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #498 | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 9 | #793 | 0.7× |
Where Gatlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gatlin is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1981 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gatlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,806 babies since 1880, Gatlin is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 217 of their 223 babies (97%), again the most given.
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 Gatlin
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 Gatlin and names like it
- Compare Gatlin and GatlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGatlin peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gatlin since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Gatlin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gatlin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.