girls:
61.4k births since 1891
#513 (91st percentile)
boys:
5k births since 1898
#1705 (63rd percentile)
overall:
66.3k births since 1891
#899 (88th percentile)
The name Gayle is the #899 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,304 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #513 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 61,353 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #1,705 (62.8% percentile) for all time with 4,951 births since 1898.
Gayle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1898 for boys). Birth data for Gayle is available in 128 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (128 years for girls and 79 years for boys). 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 Gayle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gayle reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 82.5% percentile (ranked #123) with 1,530 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 1,530 births per million (ranked 82.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gayle ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gayle reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 31.7% percentile (ranked #355) with 170 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 170 births per million (ranked 31.7% 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 "Gayle".
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