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Gayla vs Gaylan

American parents have registered 10,844 Gaylas since 1880, against 527 Gaylans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gayla against Gaylan, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gayla Gaylan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Gayla for 84 years and Gaylan for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Gayla Gaylan
Total US births 10,844527
Most in one year 61737
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,800330
Median age today 6569
Peak year 19541952
Best rank 345th girls1,347th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211924
Girls / boys 10,838 / 646 / 481

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gaylans alive today are over 69; half the Gaylas are over 65. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gayla and Gaylan.