as a Last Name
- 2,243
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yale
Meaning & Origins
Welsh: habitational name for someone who lived in the commote of Iâl (near Wrexham in northeastern Wales), named with Welsh iâl ‘fertile or arable upland’.
| 11,955th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,243
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Yale per capita
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