Gaylene
Gaylene was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 2,570 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Gaylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaylene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,185, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1956, the peak
Gaylene peaked in 1956, when 118 girls were given it, #929 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #14,185 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,687 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,442 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,317 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,595 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,931 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,893 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,524 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,160 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,303 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 14 | #4,430 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,821 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,915 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,265 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,187 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,190 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,936 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,986 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,580 | 32.3 |
| 1967 | 60 | #1,430 | 36.3 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,355 | 38.4 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,278 | 40.2 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,387 | 34.8 |
| 1963 | 80 | #1,229 | 41.5 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,130 | 47.3 |
| 1961 | 94 | #1,133 | 46.6 |
| 1960 | 94 | #1,117 | 46.5 |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,068 | 49.4 |
| 1958 | 93 | #1,089 | 46.2 |
| 1957 | 104 | #1,027 | 50.9 |
| 1956 | 118 | #929 | 58.8 |
| 1955 | 82 | #1,102 | 41.9 |
| 1954 | 73 | #1,167 | 37.6 |
| 1953 | 88 | #1,028 | 46.8 |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,022 | 45.3 |
| 1951 | 81 | #1,031 | 45.0 |
| 1950 | 73 | #1,077 | 42.6 |
| 1949 | 67 | #1,104 | 39.2 |
| 1948 | 64 | #1,117 | 37.7 |
| 1947 | 70 | #1,059 | 39.5 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,258 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,195 | 33.7 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,323 | 27.9 |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,052 | 41.6 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,285 | 28.9 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,278 | 29.8 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,279 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,313 | 29.2 |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,119 | 38.1 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,551 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,276 | 30.8 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,035 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,353 | 27.8 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,199 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,547 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,049 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gaylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gaylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaylene, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 2,570 Americans ever recorded as Gaylene. The median Gaylene alive today is 68 years old; half are between 61 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,167 people named Gaylene (2,163 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 182 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 465 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Gaylene born?
The states with the most babies named Gaylene are California, Utah and Nebraska, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Nebraska are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 352 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Utah | 182 | not ranked | 10.7× |
| Nebraska | 84 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Kansas | 68 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 37 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Idaho | 26 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Washington | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Gaylene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gaylene is most over-represented in Utah: since 1931 it was given 10.7 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 girls’ 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 Gaylene with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,910 babies since 1880, Gaylene is the most given (88% of them).
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 Gaylene
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 Gaylene and names like it
- Compare Gaylene and GalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGaylene peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaylene since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Gaylene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gaylene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.