Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Garlene

#28,444 most common girls' name of all time · #46,024 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1936–1961

Rank among girls
#28,444
Rank overall
#46,024 of 105,966
First appeared
1936
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
71
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1940 #3,478
Best rank
#3,478 1940
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19401960

Garlene first appears in 1936. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1961 5 — 5 #6,975
1959 5 — 5 #6,680
1957 5 — 5 #6,560
1952 5 — 5 #6,036
1949 6 — 6 #5,066
1945 5 — 5 #5,085
1944 6 — 6 #4,463
1943 7 — 7 #4,132
1940 8 — 8 #3,478
1938 7 — 7 #3,828
1937 7 — 7 #3,785
1936 5 — 5 #4,804