girls:
658 births since 1935
#5058 (11th percentile)
boys:
41.3k births since 1919
#554 (88th percentile)
overall:
42k births since 1919
#1203 (84th percentile)
The name Gael is the #1,203 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,982 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 84.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #554 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 41,324 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,058 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 658 births since 1935.
Gael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1935 for girls). Birth data for Gael is available in 74 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (57 years for girls and 44 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gael has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gael reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 89.5% percentile (ranked #97) with 1,975 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,975 births per million (ranked 89.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gael is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #97 (89.5% percentile) with 1,975 births per million.
For girls, Gael reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #662) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gael ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 30.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gael".
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