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Gaylon vs Gaynell

American parents have registered 4,269 Gaynells since 1880, against 3,696 Gaylons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gaylon against Gaynell, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gaylon Gaynell

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 117 years in which either name was published, Gaynell for 63 years and Gaylon for 54 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Gaylon Gaynell
Total US births 3,6964,269
Most in one year 103117
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,2002,000
Median age today 6572
Peak year 19491952
Best rank 707th boys849th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19121886
Girls / boys 218 / 3,4784,251 / 18

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 Gaynells alive today are over 72; half the Gaylons are over 65. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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