Gaylin
Gaylin was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 191 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaylin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,765, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1958, the peak
Gaylin peaked in 1958, when 16 babies were given it (10 boys, #2,704 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #14,240 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,005 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,767 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,765 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 8 | #3,817 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,402 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,368 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,655 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,341 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,848 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #6,100 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,904 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,787 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,636 | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,033 | 7 | #3,266 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,255 | 6 | #3,560 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,916 | 5 | #3,936 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,523 | 6 | #3,488 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 13 | #2,141 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 9 | #2,680 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,444 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,124 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,721 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,432 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #3,986 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Gaylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 191 Americans recorded as Gaylin, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gaylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaylin, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Gaylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 58 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Gaylin (161 women and girls, 176 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 24,408 babies since 1880, Gaylin is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Gaylin (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.
More about Gaylin and names like it
- Compare Gaylin and GalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGaylin peaked in 1958.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaylin since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Gaylin.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gaylin alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.