Feminine dossier · first seen 1931

Gaylene

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1956

Peak rank proxy

118

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1931Peak 19562024

Peak year

1956

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,570

Gaylene 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 1956, when 118 girls were named Gaylene.

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 2,570 Americans have been named Gaylene and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1931.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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