girls:
18 births since 1967
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
156 births since 1982
#4430 (3rd percentile)
overall:
174 births since 1967
#7565 (2nd percentile)
The name Gaelen is the #7,565 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 174 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,430 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 156 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1967.
Gaelen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Gaelen is available in 22 out of the 42 years between 1967 and 2008 (20 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Gaelen has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2008, 100.0% of babies named Gaelen were boys. Interestingly, until around 1982, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1967 to 1981), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (92.9% boys from 1982 to 2008).
For boys, Gaelen reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #769) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
For girls, Gaelen reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #861) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaelen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gaelen is pronounced as GAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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