Gayle — #13471 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Gayle

The Social Security Administration has registered 61,358 babies named Gayle between 1891 and 2024, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gayle currently holds the #13471 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 2,826 babies received it in a single year. Gayle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,951 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gayle performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 23,727 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Gayle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,852 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Gayle in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gayle 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 61,358 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.