Gaylen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gaylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,025 babies named Gaylen between 1915 and 2005, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gaylen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Gaylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 348 additional births since 1938.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaylen performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 568 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Gaylen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 125 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Gaylen in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaylen 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 2,025 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.