Gayla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,838 babies named Gayla between 1921 and 2014, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gayla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 617 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gayla performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 3,917 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Gayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,665 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Gayla in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gayla 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 10,838 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.