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Gale

in Connecticut

There are 216 people with the last name "Gale" in Connecticut.

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Gale 1,727
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  1. is 1,723rd most common Schulz
  2. is 1,724th most common Spaulding
  3. is 1,725th most common Vogt
  4. is 1,726th most common Beers
  5. is 1,727th most common Gale
  6. is 1,728th most common Keyes
  7. is 1,729th most common Leclerc
  8. is 1,730th most common Petrillo
  9. is 1,731st most common Prior

Similar Names and Nicknames

Gales, Galeano, Gile, Galey, Galeana, Galea, Galen, Galeas, Galer, Galentine

Most Common First Names for Gale

John, Andrew, Barbara, Robert, Mark, Peter, David, Edward, Sharon, Thomas

Meaning & History

English: nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gāl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.

English: from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.

English: metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).

Portuguese: from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.

Slovenian: from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.

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