Quick answers about Gaines
How many people are named Gaines?
An estimated 805 living Americans are named Gaines.
How rare is Gaines?
Gaines is very rare among babies today, with 19 boys receiving the name in 2025, down 40.6% from its 1915 peak.
How old is the typical Gaines?
The median age of a living American named Gaines is approximately 27 years, with most bearers falling between 10 and 65 years old.
Is Gaines still popular?
Not especially. Gaines has been declining since its 1915 peak and registered 19 births in 2025.
Where is Gaines most common?
Gaines has its strongest geographic signal in Alabama, where it appears 9.0× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
Gaines is most concentrated in Alabama — about 9.0× the national rate in the 1930s.
States where Gaines is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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