Gail Girl Name

Baby Girl Names > Starting With G > Gail

The name Gail is a diminutive form of Abigail. The table below indicates the number of times the name Gail has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Gail**
Use of the Name Gail for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
199,937	80,084	1,757	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Gail has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Gail first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. Gail last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1986, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Gail**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	870	5
1882	707	8	789	7
1883	722	8
1884	815	8
1885	529	17
1886	673	12	890	6
1887	815	9
1888	674	15	860	7
1889	592	19	916	6
1890	588	20
1891	478	29	801	7
1892	626	21	656	11
1893	493	31	552	13
1894	633	22	690	10
1895	516	33	586	13
1896	493	36	795	9
1897	525	32	992	6
1898	575	32	677	11
1899	528	32	811	8
1900	663	29	935	9
1901	638	25	616	12
1902	657	26	707	11
1903	591	31	532	17
1904	565	36	702	12
1905			955	8
1906	617	34	722	12
1907	627	36	568	19
1908	715	30	762	13
1909	712	32	973	10
1910	741	33	573	25
1911	769	32	656	23
1912	689	53	672	40
1913	684	58	555	61
1914	550	103	524	88
1915	551	136	458	144
1916	456	197	462	151
1917	434	218	448	158
1918	465	206	454	171
1919	492	186	444	177
1920	525	180	469	170
1921	481	205	460	178
1922	627	138	467	174
1923	575	156	418	207
1924	566	166	472	171
1925	563	163	451	178
1926	484	207	441	189
1927	517	184	553	124
1928	528	174	455	175
1929	520	171	483	147
1930	478	197	485	149
1931	416	238	493	135
1932	337	355	454	156
1933	263	540	414	171
1934	164	1,179	372	213
1935	126	1,798	395	192
1936	102	2,341	366	220
1937	99	2,634	371	217
1938	77	3,216	408	193
1939	73	3,349	384	217
1940	65	3,626	423	190
1941	68	3,604	413	199
1942	60	4,449	405	225
1943	55	4,803	423	212
1944	55	4,517	434	196
1945	52	4,825	458	167
1946	49	6,223	437	209
1947	49	7,239	470	203
1948	51	6,600	469	202
1949	51	7,213	458	207
1950	42	8,349	508	174
1951	36	9,873	508	177
1952	39	9,767	541	169
1953	39	9,576	572	155
1954	37	9,708	692	108
1955	42	8,966	683	115
1956	49	8,448	703	110
1957	54	7,933	739	103
1958	72	6,609	789	89
1959	75	6,356	747	104
1960	90	5,413
1961	94	4,967	890	74
1962	103	4,382	932	66
1963	106	4,103
1964	125	3,448
1965	134	2,856
1966	151	2,303
1967	164	2,024
1968	180	1,799
1969	199	1,572
1970	220	1,426
1971	247	1,185
1972	267	992
1973	313	744
1974	345	631
1975	369	561
1976	427	475
1977	485	391
1978	494	393
1979	535	350
1980	609	301
1981	626	289
1982	591	306
1983	627	275
1984	702	237
1985	835	194
1986	998	155
Totals:		199,937		8,305

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gail as a girl's name about 96% of the time and less frequently (about 3% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Gail appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 105 times during the last 125 years.

Baby-Girl-Names.org is a Chosen Sites™ family reference source.
All information on this baby name website is provided "as is."

Gail Girl Name

Baby Girl Names > Starting With G > Gail

Girl Name Gail