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Gale

in New Mexico

There are 60 people with the last name "Gale" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Gale 2,604
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  1. is 2,600th most common Colbert
  2. is 2,601st most common Costa
  3. is 2,602nd most common Ely
  4. is 2,603rd most common Fisk
  5. is 2,604th most common Gale
  6. is 2,605th most common Gardiner
  7. is 2,606th most common Gatewood
  8. is 2,607th most common Grine
  9. is 2,608th most common Grubb

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gale

James, Dorothy, Richard, Earl, George, Michelle, Robert, Steven, Annalee, Beth

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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