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Gale

in Massachusetts

There are 575 people with the last name "Gale" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Gale 1,302
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  1. is 1,298th most common Nagle
  2. is 1,299th most common Spaulding
  3. is 1,300th most common Acosta
  4. is 1,301st most common Christensen
  5. is 1,302nd most common Gale
  6. is 1,303rd most common Wilder
  7. is 1,304th most common Santoro
  8. is 1,305th most common Tower
  9. is 1,306th most common Proctor

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gale

Robert, John, Richard, William, David, Michael, Kathleen, Charles, Barbara, Christopher

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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