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Gale

in Maryland

There are 326 people with the last name "Gale" in Maryland.

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Gale 1,688
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  1. is 1,684th most common Wathen
  2. is 1,685th most common Weir
  3. is 1,686th most common Weston
  4. is 1,687th most common Dominguez
  5. is 1,688th most common Gale
  6. is 1,689th most common Harry
  7. is 1,690th most common Lauer
  8. is 1,691st most common Muse
  9. is 1,692nd most common Somers

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gale

Richard, Robert, Charles, John, Michael, William, George, Kevin, Dorothy, James

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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