Feminine dossier · first seen 1881

Gail

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gail
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.8% from peak

Peak era

1951

Peak rank proxy

9,886

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1881Peak 19512024

Peak year

1951

Decline from peak

99.8%

2024

All-time

201,730

Gail once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1951, when 9,886 girls were named Gail.

In 2024, only 17 girls were given the name.

Down 99.8% from its peak.

All told, about 201,730 Americans have been named Gail and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1881.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.8% from peak

19519,886 girls named Gail

202417 girls named Gail

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