Gaylon — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gaylon

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,478 babies named Gaylon between 1912 and 2018, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gaylon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Gaylon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 218 additional births since 1933.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gaylon performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 788 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Gaylon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 795 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Gaylon in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gaylon 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 3,478 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.