Feminine dossier · first seen 1921

Gayla

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1954

Peak rank proxy

617

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1921Peak 19542024

Peak year

1954

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

10,838

Gayla 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 1954, when 617 girls were named Gayla.

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 10,838 Americans have been named Gayla and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1921.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

1954617 girls named Gayla

20240 (extinct) girls named Gayla

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