Gaylin — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gaylin

The Social Security Administration has registered 110 babies named Gaylin between 1931 and 1975, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gaylin currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1950, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Gaylin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 81 additional births since 1951.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaylin performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Gaylin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Gaylin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaylin 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 110 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.