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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Gayl

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

607

peak year 1952

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1952
43 births
Best rank
#1,475
in 1952
First recorded
1917
#4,875 that year
Last recorded
1975
no later published record
Average birth year
1951
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
44 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195243#1,475Peak
  2. 195429#1,958
  3. 195125#1,982
  4. 194724#2,017
  5. 195624#2,275

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,475 in 1952 · peak births 43 in 1952

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 2% boys■ 98% girls

15 boys · 607 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 Gayl has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.