Gaylen
The boy's name Gaylen has been in the national records since 1915, with 2,373 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 1,400 Gaylens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Gaylen
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 348 girls and 2,025 boys in all, and in 1974 the split was 8 to 21.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 37 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,373
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1949
- Best rank
- 707th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 348 / 2,025
How old the living Gaylens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,373 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,400 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 840 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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.
Notable Gaylens
- Gaylen Ross (born 1950)American actress, documentary film producer
People named Gaylen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gaylen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gaylen is most concentrated in Iowa (23.7×), Utah (22.3×), Nebraska (13.0×), Minnesota (7.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1949
The most popular boys’ names the year Gaylen peaked:
Related names
Gaylen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.