girls:
4.3k births since 1886
#2633 (54th percentile)
boys:
18 births since 1937
#4568 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1886
#4194 (46th percentile)
The name Gaynell is the #4,194 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,269 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 45.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,633 (53.9% percentile) for all time with 4,251 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #4,568 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1937.
Gaynell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1937 for boys). Birth data for Gaynell is available in 96 out of the 106 years between 1886 and 1991 (96 years for girls and 2 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 Gaynell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gaynell reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 16.3% percentile (ranked #578) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 83 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
For boys, Gaynell reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #518) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gaynell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gaynell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Gaynell is pronounced as GAY-nehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAY-NEHL, at 35.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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