girls:
46 births since 1948
#5670 (1st percentile)
boys:
481 births since 1924
#4105 (10th percentile)
overall:
527 births since 1924
#7212 (7th percentile)
The name Gaylan is the #7,212 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 527 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 6.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,105 (10.4% percentile) for all time with 481 births since 1924. For girls, it ranks #5,670 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1948.
Gaylan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for boys and 1948 for girls). Birth data for Gaylan is available in 44 out of the 72 years between 1924 and 1995 (44 years for boys and 8 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 Gaylan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gaylan reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #587) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 16 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
For girls, Gaylan reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #668) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaylan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gaylan is pronounced as GAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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