Gaylene — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gaylene

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,570 babies named Gaylene between 1931 and 1995, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gaylene currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 118 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaylene performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 896 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Gaylene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Nebraska. In total, SSA state-level files list Gaylene in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaylene 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 2,570 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.