Gaelen
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gaelen has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Gaelen, 2008
1 in 562,000
Gaelen over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Gaelen over time
In 2008, Gaelen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Gaelen?
Gaelen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 562,000
- 7 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 389,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gaelen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaelen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gaelens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaelen was born before 1995 — so the typical Gaelen is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 156
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Gaelen rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (14)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Gaelen
Gaelen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 40.4% against Gaelen's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Gaelen around the world
Where Gaelen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2002–2002#3,225in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Gaelen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gaelen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gaelen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.