Gaylan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gaylan has been given to 527 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1952, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Gaylan, 1995
1 in 458,000
Gaylan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Gaylan over time
In 1995, Gaylan 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 Gaylan?
Gaylan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 458,000
- 8 of 3,660,254 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 238,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 317,138 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gaylan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 317,138 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gaylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaylan was born before 1952 — so the typical Gaylan is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 33.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 302
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (162).
Is Gaylan 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 1952 (31)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Gaylan
Gaylan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 32.9% against Gaylan's 0.04%.
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 Gaylan is used
Across 1910–2025, Gaylan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,020,266 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
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. Gaylan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gaylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gaylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gaylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.