How Many People Are Named Gayla?
people named Gayla are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 38,843 people in the US has this name
Based on 10,844 babies named Gayla in Social Security records from 1921 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
617 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Elaborated form of GAIL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Gayla in English. Counting Gayla and these spellings together, about 9,227 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Gayla in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Gayla alive today is about 63 years old, and 69% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 71 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Gayla first appears in the records in 1921 and was given most often in 1954, to 617 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1921 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Gayla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #344, in 1954.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #344 (1954) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #457 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Gayla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Gayla were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,373 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gayla was given 10.7 times as often in Oklahoma, 4.4 times in Kansas and 3.8 times in Arkansas.
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