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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Gayla

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

10,838

peak year 1954

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1954
617 births
Best rank
#345
in 1954
First recorded
1921
#4,177 that year
Last recorded
2014
no later published record
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
84 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1954617#345Peak
  2. 1953481#388
  3. 1961460#456
  4. 1955432#425
  5. 1959421#473

Rank over time

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

Best rank #345 in 1954 · peak births 617 in 1954

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

6 boys · 10,838 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 Gayla has ranked, decade by decade

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