Gayland
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gayland has been given to 1,025 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1950, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Gayland, 1995
1 in 732,000
Gayland 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gayland?
Gayland 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 732,000
- 5 of 3,660,254 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 381,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,420 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gayland 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gayland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gaylands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gayland was born before 1951 — so the typical Gayland is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 28.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 577
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (296).
Is Gayland 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1950 (47)
- Years since peak
- 75
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gayland
Gayland is not the most common spelling — Garland is, with 28.0% against Gayland's 1.2%.
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 Gayland is used
Across 1910–2025, Gayland was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 207,929 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Kansas1 in —
- 4Oklahoma1 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. Gayland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gayland by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gayland
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gayland
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.