Masculine dossier · first seen 1915

Gaylen

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1949

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1915Peak 19492024

Peak year

1949

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,025

Gaylen 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 1949, when 94 boys were named Gaylen.

No boys 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 2,025 Americans have been named Gaylen and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1915.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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