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Gatlin

#1,026 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gatlin has been given to 4,511 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,026 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 359 recorded.

Babies named Gatlin, 2025

1 in 15,300

Gatlin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gatlin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gatlin means

Gatlin is a given name.

The naming story behind Gatlin

Wikidata records Gatlin as a given name. The entity identifier is Q88958785, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,471 boys were recorded with the name Gatlin between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 359 in 2022; its best national rank was #725 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #779 in 2020 to #1,026 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,061 in 2015 to #1,026 in 2025.

In the United States, 40 girls were recorded with the name Gatlin between 2015 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2021; its best national rank was #7,383 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Gatlin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,300
217 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,870
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,026
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gatlin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,591 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gatlin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gatlins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gatlin was born before 2018 — so the typical Gatlin is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (1,766).

Is Gatlin 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
−137
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−247
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+35
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.4%
Peak was 2022 (359)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#725
2022

Spellings of Gatlin

Gatlin is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 68.0% against Gatlin's 1.6%.

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.

Where Gatlin is used

Across 2016–2025, Gatlin was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,111 boys, against 1 in 5,639 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

090 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 1,111
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 1,515
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 1,515
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 1,639
  5. 5Indiana1 in 1,887
  6. 6Missouri1 in 2,041
  7. 7Alabama1 in 2,439
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 2,564

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.

Geographically, Gatlin is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Gatlin around the world

Where Gatlin 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Gatlin

People whose public names include Gatlin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gatlin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,026
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 247
Best rank ever
#725
2022
Peak year
2022
359 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,471
Count in 2025
217

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,383
2021
Peak year
2021
15 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gatlin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Gatlin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gatlin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gatlin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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