Gayland
Gayland was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 1,025 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gayland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gayland?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,326, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1950, the peak
Gayland peaked in 1950, when 47 boys were given it, #1,028 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #9,326 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,120 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,022 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,899 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,610 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,040 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,613 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,598 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,945 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,144 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 6 | #5,021 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,323 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,639 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,433 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,225 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,233 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,597 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,237 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,182 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,993 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,742 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,724 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,068 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,916 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,023 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,589 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,932 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,567 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 28 | #1,495 | 13.0 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,400 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,550 | 12.1 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,368 | 15.2 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,316 | 16.7 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,638 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,225 | 19.1 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,028 | 26.3 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,234 | 19.2 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,333 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,326 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,661 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,549 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,497 | 15.4 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,473 | 16.1 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,367 | 18.8 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,785 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,536 | 17.3 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,665 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,410 | 20.7 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,127 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,607 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,970 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,459 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,730 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,713 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,033 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,504 | 10.0 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,486 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,258 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,471 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,346 | 7.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,549 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,585 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,374 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,489 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,711 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gayland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gayland has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gayland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gayland, and how old are they?
An estimated 558 Americans named Gayland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 58 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 662 people named Gayland (43 women and girls, 619 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 657 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 Gayland born?
The states with the most babies named Gayland are Texas, Oklahoma and California, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 148 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Gayland is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gayland is most over-represented in Texas: since 1917 it was given 2.4 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 Gayland with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gayland
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 Gayland and names like it
- Compare Gayland and JerroldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGayland peaked in 1950.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gayland since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Gayland.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gayland alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.