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Gale

in South Dakota

There are 39 people with the last name "Gale" in South Dakota.

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Ranking in South Dakota

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Gale 2,849
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  1. is 2,845th most common Engle
  2. is 2,846th most common Ewalt
  3. is 2,847th most common Fisk
  4. is 2,848th most common Floyd
  5. is 2,849th most common Gale
  6. is 2,850th most common Gibbons
  7. is 2,851st most common Groves
  8. is 2,852nd most common Hague
  9. is 2,853rd most common Hallstrom

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gale

James, John, Kelly, Loretta, Alfred, Amanda, Bindi, Carol, David, Deborah

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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