# Gayla (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gayla/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,844 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 10,838 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 28 | 3,820 |
| 1995 | 29 | 3,697 |
| 1996 | 18 | 5,360 |
| 1997 | 27 | 4,052 |
| 1998 | 17 | 5,889 |
| 1999 | 17 | 6,008 |
| 2000 | 12 | 8,207 |
| 2001 | 13 | 7,891 |
| 2002 | 8 | 11,470 |
| 2003 | 6 | 14,464 |
| 2004 | 9 | 10,994 |
| 2005 | 5 | 17,352 |
| 2006 | 8 | 12,780 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,564 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,245 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6 | 3,787 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.