Gayla
The girl's name Gayla has been in the national records since 1921, with 10,844 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2014. About 8,800 Gaylas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,844
- Estimated living today
- 8,800
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 345th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1921
- Girls / boys
- 10,838 / 6
How old the living Gaylas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,844 babies given the name since 1921, about 8,800 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 6 of them are children and 4,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Gayla is most common
Across the country Gayla is recorded 2.48 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Gaylas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular girls’ names the year Gayla peaked:
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Gayla against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.