Gayle

Girl name

Gayle has been given to 66,308 babies in the U.S. since 1891. It peaked in 1951.

Meaning & origin /ɡeɪl/

Origin: surnames

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

66,308

Peak year

1951 (2,929 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1891

10-year trend

New / returning

Gender split

93% girls / 7% boys

Julie London

American actress and singer (1926-2000)

Gayle Rubin

American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Gayle.

66,855 babies since 1880

65,569 babies since 1886

59,587 babies since 1906

57,449 babies since 1885

75,874 babies since 1880

56,356 babies since 1916

76,934 babies since 1902

78,098 babies since 1882

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