Gaylee
Gaylee was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 56 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaylee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,850, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1947, the peak
Gaylee peaked in 1947, when 8 girls were given it, #4,110 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #8,850 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,838 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,489 | 3.7 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,791 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,118 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,521 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,876 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,110 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,534 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gaylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gaylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaylee, and how old are they?
An estimated 40 Americans named Gaylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 139 people named Gaylee (138 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Gaylee rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 111,824 babies since 1880, Gaylee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Gaylee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gaylee
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 Gaylee and names like it
- Compare Gaylee and GayleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sGaylee peaked in 1947.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Gaylee.
- Names starting with GMost given first.