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Gale

in South Carolina

There are 130 people with the last name "Gale" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Gale 3,433
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  1. is 3,429th most common Danner
  2. is 3,430th most common Duggan
  3. is 3,431st most common Duggins
  4. is 3,432nd most common Forte
  5. is 3,433rd most common Gale
  6. is 3,434th most common Gramling
  7. is 3,435th most common Harsey
  8. is 3,436th most common Hershberger
  9. is 3,437th most common Hoyt

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gale

David, Gordon, John, Mary, Richard, Charles, Emma, Robert, Susan, Alicia

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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