girls:
348 births since 1938
#5368 (6th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1915
#2787 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1915
#5447 (30th percentile)
The name Gaylen is the #5,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,373 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 29.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,787 (39.2% percentile) for all time with 2,025 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,368 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 348 births since 1938.
Gaylen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1938 for girls). Birth data for Gaylen is available in 82 out of the 91 years between 1915 and 2005 (81 years for boys and 36 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 Gaylen has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2005, 100.0% of babies named Gaylen were boys.
For boys, Gaylen reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #497) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 52 births per million (ranked 15.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
For girls, Gaylen reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #673) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaylen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gaylen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Gaylen is pronounced as GAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAY-lihn, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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