Gayleen
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gayleen has been given to 565 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1955, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Gayleen, 1981
1 in 692,000
Gayleen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gayleen?
Gayleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gayleen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gayleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gayleens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gayleen was born before 1957 — so the typical Gayleen is around 68 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 427
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (206).
Is Gayleen 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 1955 (26)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gayleen
Gayleen is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 32.5% against Gayleen's 0.13%.
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 Gayleen is used
Across 1910–2025, Gayleen was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 308,630 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Gayleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gayleen around the world
Where Gayleen 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 Australia1945–1968#679in 1968
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gayleen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gayleen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gayleen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.