Gaither
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gaither has been given to 648 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1918, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Gaither, 1992
1 in 768,000
Gaither 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gaither?
Gaither had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gaither sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaither. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gaithers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaither was born before 1932 — so the typical Gaither is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 127
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (152).
Is Gaither 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 1918 (21)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gaither
Gaither is not the most common spelling — Arther is, with 55.0% against Gaither's 7.1%.
Where Gaither is used
Across 1910–2025, Gaither was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 23,413 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gaither has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gaither by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gaither
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gaither
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.