Gaylon
Gaylon was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 3,696 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Gaylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 54 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaylon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,794, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1950, the peak
Gaylon peaked in 1950, when 103 babies were given it (93 boys, #710 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #12,794 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,524 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,127 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,532 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,951 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,991 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,230 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,041 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,147 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,478 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 12 | #5,061 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,394 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,634 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,613 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,533 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,500 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,872 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,041 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,717 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,708 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,054 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,715 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,152 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,696 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,708 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,018 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,225 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,075 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,188 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,936 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 32 | #1,685 | 19.5 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,073 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,517 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,011 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 40 | #1,315 | 25.7 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,271 | 26.5 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,262 | 24.9 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,172 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,239 | 22.9 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,090 | 27.0 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,205 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,141 | 24.1 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,047 | 26.9 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,087 | 24.6 |
| 1963 | 63 | #949 | 31.0 |
| 1962 | 68 | #920 | 32.9 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,061 | 25.4 |
| 1960 | 68 | #918 | 31.9 |
| 1959 | 79 | #853 | 37.0 |
| 1958 | 81 | #839 | 38.2 |
| 1957 | 61 | #974 | 28.3 |
| 1956 | 82 | #824 | 38.8 |
| 1955 | 78 | #832 | 37.9 |
| 1954 | 87 | #765 | 42.7 |
| 1953 | 75 | #830 | 38.0 |
| 1952 | 63 | #888 | 32.4 |
| 1951 | 89 | #736 | 47.3 |
| 1950 | 93 | #710 | 51.9 |
| 1949 | 94 | #710 | 53.0 |
| 1948 | 75 | #789 | 42.7 |
| 1947 | 83 | #755 | 45.4 |
| 1946 | 77 | #755 | 47.4 |
| 1945 | 48 | #929 | 35.7 |
| 1944 | 61 | #805 | 44.8 |
| 1943 | 74 | #757 | 51.8 |
| 1942 | 67 | #787 | 48.5 |
| 1941 | 67 | #759 | 54.5 |
| 1940 | 81 | #673 | 69.9 |
| 1939 | 51 | #862 | 46.1 |
| 1938 | 63 | #774 | 56.8 |
| 1937 | 52 | #849 | 48.8 |
| 1936 | 61 | #782 | 58.8 |
| 1935 | 52 | #874 | 49.9 |
| 1934 | 42 | #996 | 40.7 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,109 | 35.3 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,274 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,294 | 27.9 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,223 | 31.0 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,246 | 29.8 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,666 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,616 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,933 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,511 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,364 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,776 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,544 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,184 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,511 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,654 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,201 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,820 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,083 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,007 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,901 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,996 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,677 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,696 Americans recorded as Gaylon, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gaylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaylon, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 3,696 Americans ever recorded as Gaylon. The median Gaylon alive today is 65 years old; half are between 54 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,284 people named Gaylon (208 women and girls, 2,076 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,432 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 225 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,030 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 538 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 232 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 76 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Gaylon born?
The states with the most babies named Gaylon are Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arkansas and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 800 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Arkansas | 215 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Tennessee | 106 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Oklahoma | 61 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 58 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 12 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Iowa | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 9 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Gaylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gaylon is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1912 it was given 4.3 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 boys’ 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 Gaylon 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,408 babies since 1880, Gaylon is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Gaylon (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gaylon
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 Gaylon and names like it
- Compare Gaylon and GalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGaylon peaked in 1950.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaylon since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Gaylon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gaylon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.