girls:
564 births since 1922
#5152 (10th percentile)
overall:
564 births since 1922
#7175 (7th percentile)
The name Gaila is the #7,175 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 564 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 7.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,152 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 564 births since 1922.
Gaila first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (first recorded for girls in 1922). Birth data for Gaila is available in 41 out of the 61 years between 1922 and 1982. 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.
For girls, Gaila reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #697) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaila".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gaila is pronounced as GAY-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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