How rare is the name Gayla?

9,065 people in the United States have the first name Gayla, about 1 in 33,318. It ranks #2,624 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GAYLA

#2,624

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,065
About
1 in 33,318
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 9,065 people named Gayla, 84.7% reported their origin as White, 8.1% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Gayla peaked in 1954, when 617 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19212014
Peak year
1954
Births that year
617
In 2014
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,844 babies have been given the name since 1921. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Gayla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #815. The largest share of babies named Gayla, 62.2%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#8,29739
1930s#2,365320
1940s#1,1771,352
1950s#8153,917
1960s#9603,336
1970s#1,7801,200
1980s#4,040387
1990s#7,548221
2000s#20,68766
2010s#44,5536
Greatest Generation 1901–270.2%
Silent Generation 1928–457.4%
Baby boom 1946–6462.2%
Generation X 1965–8024.3%
Millennials 1981–964.6%
Generation Z 1997–121.2%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Gayla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gayla has been most common in Oklahoma (9.3×), Kansas (4.5×), and Arkansas (3.6×), and least common in New York (0.05×).

8,213 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Gayla

#2,622 Hortencia · 9,071#2,623 Ami · 9,067#2,625 Coral · 9,062#2,625 Kaya · 9,062

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Gayla, most common first.

#876 Gayle · 51,625#8,592 Gala · 1,683#17,356 Gayl · 637#19,413 Gaila · 545#37,614 Gaylia · 207

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