Gayel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gayel has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1940, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Gayel, 1940
1 in 384,000
Gayel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gayel?
Gayel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1940
- 1 in 384,000
- 6 of 2,302,666 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1940
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 266,016 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gayel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1940 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 266,016 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gayel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gayels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gayel was born before 1940 — so the typical Gayel is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Gayel 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1940 (6)
- Years since peak
- 85
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Gayel
Gayel is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 32.5% against Gayel's <0.01%.
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.
Gayel around the world
Where Gayel 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.
- South Australia1971–1983#465in 1983
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gayel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gayel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gayel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.