Gale
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
19,906
peak year 1957
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1957
- 1,210 births
- Best rank
- #244
- in 1957
- First recorded
- 1893
- #1,509 that year
- Last recorded
- 2023
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1953
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 102 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19571,210#244Peak
- 19561,077#255
- 19581,052#272
- 19551,030#260
- 19541,015#259
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #244 in 1957 · peak births 1,210 in 1957
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 38% boys■ 62% girls
12,437 boys · 19,906 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Gale has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.