Feminine dossier · first seen 1909

Gaye

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1960

Peak rank proxy

268

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1909Peak 19602024

Peak year

1960

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

5,747

Gaye has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1960, when 268 girls were named Gaye.

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 5,747 Americans have been named Gaye and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1909.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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