Feminine dossier · first seen 1893

Gale

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

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1957

Peak era

1957

Peak rank proxy

1,210

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Boomer

1893Peak 19572024

Peak year

1957

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

19,906

Gale is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1957, when 1,210 girls were named Gale.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 19,906 Americans have been named Gale and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1893.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1957

19571,210 girls named Gale

20240 (extinct) girls named Gale

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