girls:
218 births since 1933
#5498 (4th percentile)
boys:
3.5k births since 1912
#2121 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1912
#4511 (42nd percentile)
The name Gaylon is the #4,511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,696 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 41.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,121 (53.7% percentile) for all time with 3,478 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,498 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 218 births since 1933.
Gaylon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1933 for girls). Birth data for Gaylon is available in 96 out of the 107 years between 1912 and 2018 (96 years for boys and 29 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 Gaylon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gaylon reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #497) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 68 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Gaylon reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #681) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaylon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gaylon is pronounced as GAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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