Gaylene
Recorded 1931–1995 · United States
Gaylene was most popular in 1956, when 118 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,572 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,570 people named Gaylene.
Gaylene over time
How old is the name Gaylene?
Gaylene first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1931, which makes it about 94 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 56 of the 95 years since. It was last recorded in 1995.
How many people are named Gaylene?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,570 American births named Gaylene 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 1,972 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Gaylene in 2025?
Gaylene 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 Gaylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Gaylene is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,570 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% 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 Gaylene?
Roughly 1,972 Americans named Gaylene are alive today — 77% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 68 years old, and half are between 61 and 74.
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 Gaylene 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