Gayle

At the 2020 census, 8,282 Americans bore the surname Gayle — 4,148th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,282
Rank: 4,148th
How common: 1 in 36,100
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gayle described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 64.1%
White, not Hispanic 25.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gayle

Gayle (born 2004)American singer-songwriter

People named Gayle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gayle

Also a first name

Gayle has been given to 66,308 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 1951. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.