Gaylen
Recorded 1915–2005 · United States
Gaylen was most popular in 1949, when 104 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,483 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,373 people named Gaylen.
Gaylen over time
How old is the name Gaylen?
Gaylen first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1915, which makes it about 110 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 82 of the 111 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Gaylen?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,373 American births named Gaylen between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,420 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Gaylen in 2025?
Gaylen was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Gaylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Gaylen is mostly a boy’s name — 14.7% of the 2,373 Americans given it were girls and 85.3% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Gaylen?
Roughly 1,420 Americans named Gaylen are alive today — 60% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 59 and 76.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Gaylen is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org