Gail

girls:

201.7k births since 1881

#197 (97th percentile)

boys:

9k births since 1882

#1247 (73rd percentile)

overall:

210.7k births since 1881

#371 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gail".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
201,711
Peak Births
9,887
Peak Year
1954
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
95.0%
Current Percentile
1.7%
Peak Rank
#36
Current Rank
#931
Female statistics
Total Births
8,951
Peak Births
227
Peak Year
1936
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
37.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#200
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Gail

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Gail. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Gail is pronounced as gayl.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Gail. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Gail, please vote using the thumbs up button.

geel (1 syllable)
1 name 4.9k births
G IY1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

gal (1 syllable)
2 names 842 births
G AE1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like G EY1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.