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)
The name Gail is the #371 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 210,662 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 95.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #197 (96.6% percentile) for all time with 201,711 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #1,247 (72.8% percentile) for all time with 8,951 births since 1882.
Gail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1882 for boys).
The name Gail has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gail reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 95.0% percentile (ranked #37) with 4,885 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 5,352 births per million (ranked 95.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gail ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gail reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 37.3% percentile (ranked #326) with 207 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 207 births per million (ranked 37.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gail".
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