Gael
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #86 for boys in 2025, 3,860 births
Given to boys 98.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 3,860 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 49,079since 1919
Gael over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #86 | 3,860 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #89 | 3,872 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #100 | 3,629 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #104 | 3,509 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #109 | 3,513 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #112 | 3,262 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #133 | 2,900 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #132 | 2,931 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #178 | 2,239 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #178 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #220 | 1,783 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #213 | 1,809 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #177 | 2,307 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #146 | 2,745 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #410 | 690 |
| 2010 | — | #408 | 692 | |
| 2009 | — | #318 | 1,003 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #298 | 1,119 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #296 | 1,168 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #314 | 1,026 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #297 | 1,102 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #370 | 751 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #526 | 443 |
| 2002 | — | #719 | 246 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,185 | 47 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,661 | 17 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #3,604 | 17 |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,122 | 24 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,329 | 18 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #1,822 | 28 | #1,916 | 16 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | #1,660 | 25 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,352 | 15 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,954 | 18 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,125 | 15 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #1,845 | 18 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | #3,549 | 5 |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gael! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1937, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Gael
- 3 spots since 2024 (#89 → #86)
- 26 spots since 2020 (#112 → #86)
- 134 spots since 2015 (#220 → #86)
- Biggest jump: 1,466 spots in 2002 (#2,185 → #719)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2010 (#318 → #408)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2025 at #86 (3,860 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 443 boys born in 2025 were named Gael (0.23%)
- 44.1% of all boys named Gael (21,645) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,201 (1926) | #4,262 |
| 1930s | 23 | #2,829 (1939) | #3,389 |
| 1940s | 30 | #1,916 (1947) | #2,615 |
| 1950s | 8 | #2,875 (1952) | #2,875 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 6 | #6,941 (1989) | #6,941 |
| 1990s | 97 | #3,604 (1992) | #5,042 |
| 2000s | 6,911 | #296 (2007) | #1,444 |
| 2010s | 20,344 | #132 (2018) | #220 |
| 2020s | 21,645 | #86 (2025) | #100 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gael in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 221,503 of them was named Gael, which outranked 37.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,859Zuriyah9
- #10,859Zyann9
- #10,859Zylynn9
- #11,781Gael8
- #11,781Aalaya8
- #11,781Aalijah8
- #11,781Aaliyana8
- #12,876Aabha7
- #12,876Aadvi7
- #12,876Aagna7
Tied with 1,094 names at #11,781; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 844 of them was named Gael, which outranked 98.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.