Gale



Gender:
Origin: English, Gaelic
194 famous people named Gale found on Wikipedia.
19892 female, 12375 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 16652-th in year 2017
Best ranking: 245-th in year 1957
Used in: English

Meanings

Gale is a given name. It has seen masculine and feminine use consecutively in the United States. Gale as a man's name is from an English surname, ultimately from Middle English gaile "jovial". As a woman's name, it is a short form of the biblical name Abigail. It can also be used as a form of the name Galen, a name derived from that of the ancient Greek physician, meaning "tranquil."
It was almost exclusively a masculine name before 1935; in the later 1930s, it became a popular variant of the feminine name Abigail. Feminine usage surpassed masculine usage in 1940, leading to a further decline in masculine usage, and Gale was predominantly a feminine name when it peaked in popularity in the later 1950s. Its popularity decreased rapidly in the 1960s, falling below rank 1,000 in 1971. In the 1990 census, it was ranked 4,209.


"strong wind," especially at sea, 1540s, from gaile "wind," origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse gol "breeze," or Old Danish gal "bad, furious" (often used of weather), which are related to Old Norse galinn "furious, mad, frantic; enchanted, bewitched," from gala "to sing, chant," the wind so called from its raging or on the notion of being raised by spells (but OED finds reason to doubt this). Or perhaps it is named for the sound, from Old English galan "to sing," or giellan "to yell." The Old Norse and Old English words all are from the source of yell (v.). In nautical use, between a stiff breeze and a storm; in technical meteorological use, a wind between 32 and 63 miles per hour.


Foreigner, cheerful, happy.

Famous People: 194 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Gale Sayers 1943 All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, College Football Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall of Fame
2 Gale Anne Hurd 1955 American film producer and screenwriter
3 Megan Gale 1975 Australian model
4 Gale Harold 1969 Actor
5 Dorothy Gale Fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum
6 Gale Gordon 1906 Actor
7 Gale Hawthorne Fictional character from The Hunger Games
8 Gale Storm 1922 American actress, singer
9 Kelly Gale 1995
10 Gale Sondergaard 1899 American actress
11 Gale Benson 1944 British model
12 Gale Hansen 1960 American actor
13 Jennifer Gale 1960 American politician
14 Elan Gale 1983
15 Gale Garnett 1942 Canadian singer
16 Gale Weathers Scream character
17 Tony Gale 1959 Football player
18 Eric Gale 1938 American guitarist
19 Gale Norton 1954 United States Secretaries of the Interior
20 Gale Brewer 1951 American politician
21 Mariah Gale 1980 British actress
22 Cathy Gale 1930
23 Gale Gilbert 1961 American football player
24 Lorena Gale 1958 Actress
25 Philip Gale 1978 American software developer
26 Luke Gale 1988 British rugby league player
27 Gale Robbins 1921 American actress
28 David Gale 1936 British actor
29 Vincent Gale 1968 Actor
30 Patrick Gale 1962 British novelist
31 Andrew Gale 1983 English cricketer
32 June Gale 1911
33 Nathan Gale 1979
34 Gale Agbossoumonde 1991 Association football player
35 Gale Page 1913 Actress
36 Eddra Gale 1921 American actress
37 Mitchell Gale 1990 American football player
38 Mildred Gale 1671 Grandmother of George Washington
39 Melvyn Gale 1952 British musician
40 Richard Nelson Gale 1896 British soldier
41 Zona Gale 1874 American author and playwright
42 Gale Gand 1956 American chef
43 Gale Gillingham 1944 Player of American football
44 Gale Catlett 1940 American basketball player-coach
45 Jean Gale 1912 Vaudeville performer
46 Brendon Gale 1968 Australian rules footballer
47 Gale W. McGee 1915 American politician
48 Gale Banks 1942 American automotive engineer
49 Robert Peter Gale 1945 American medical researcher
50 Joseph Gale 1807 American pioneer
51 La Gale 1984
52 Cale Gale 1985 American racing driver and crew chief
53 Porter Gale Author, public speaker
54 Gale Edwards 1954 Australian theatre director
55 Iain Gale 1959 Author
56 Gale Pollock Nurse, US Army general
57 Eddie Gale 1941 American musician
58 Gale Henry 1893 American actress
59 Lauren Gale 1917 American basketball player
60 John A. Gale 1940 American politician
61 Mike Gale 1950 American basketball player
62 Gale Tattersall 1948 British-born filmmaker and cinematographer
63 Rocky Gale 1988 Professional baseball player
64 Ann Gale 1966 American artist
65 Rich Gale 1954 American baseball player and coach
66 George Washington Gale 1789 American academic founder
67 Gale Sherwood 1929 Canadian actress and singer
68 Michael Gale 1966 Australian rules footballer
69 Ed Gale 1963 American actor
70 James Scarth Gale 1863 Canadian missionary
71 Rob Gale 1977 English footballer
72 Hannah Gale 1876 Canadian politician
73 Kate Gale 1965 American writer
74 William G. Gale American economist
75 Gladys Gale 1891 American singer, vaudeville and actor
76 Maura Gale American actress
77 Shaun Gale 1969 Footballer; football manager
78 Gale E. Klappa American businessman
79 Leo de Gale 1921 Governor-General of Grenada
80 Mark Gale 1976 Australian footballer
81 Tristan Gale 1980 Skeleton racer
82 Gale D. Candaras 1949 Massachusetts State Senator
83 Gale Wilhelm 1908 American writer
84 Gale Schisler 1933 American politician
85 Alan Gale 1930 Australian rules footballer
86 Humfrey Gale 1890 British Army general
87 Walter Frederick Gale 1865 Australian astronomer and banker
88 Roger Gale 1672 Member of Parliament; Antiquary
89 Scott Gale 1994 American composer
90 Anita Gale, Baroness Gale 1940 British Baroness
91 Grant O. Gale 1903 American physicist
92 Fay Gale 1932 Australian geographer
93 Gale H. Stalker 1889 American politician
94 Gale Rigobert Saint Lucian politician
95 Leonard Gale
96 Gale Thomson 1919 First Lady of New Hampshire
97 Richard Pillsbury Gale 1900 American politician
98 Gale Cincotta 1929 American activist
99 Joseph H. Gale 1953 American judge
100 Gale Rossides Director of the Transport Safety Administration
101 Michael J Gale 1962 Businessperson
102 George Alexander Gale 1906 Canadian judge
103 Gale Pedrick 1906 Author, journalist, scriptwriter, and broadcaster
104 Theophilus Gale 1628 British theologian
105 Don Gale Australian rules footballer
106 Gale Bishop 1922 American basketball player
107 Gale Wade 1929 American baseball player
108 Matthew Gale 1983 Australian cricketer
109 Edward Gale 1818 English cricketer
110 Gale Fulton Ross 1947 American artist
111 Norman Gale 1939 Welsh rugby union player
112 Peggy Gale
113 Bob Gale 1933 English cricketer
114 Alice Gale 1858 American actress
115 Christopher Gale 1670 American lawyer
116 Gale B. Aydelott 1914 American businessman
117 Gregory Gale American costume designer
118 Gale Bruno van Albada 1912 Dutch astronomer
119 Anthony Gale 1993 Ice sledge hockey
120 Aaron Gale 1970 New Zealand cricketer
121 Stephen Gale 1952 Cricketer
122 Rachel Elizabeth Baker Gale 1858 Playwright
123 Gale McArthur American basketball player
124 Dunstan Gale English poet
125 Gale Katchur Canadian politician
126 Gale Dixon 1946 American actress
127 Leslie Gale 1904 English cricketer
128 Colin Gale 1932 Welsh footballer
129 Dan Gale 1989 Cricketer
130 Gale Sears American author specializing in historical fiction
131 Doug Gale Internet developer
132 Thomas Gale 1507 British surgeon
133 Len Gale 1897 Australian rules footballer
134 Audrey Ngaere Gale 1909 Lawyer, local politician, community leader
135 Gale Sieveking 1925 British archaeologist
136 Gerad Hamar Gale 1311 Sultan of Warsangeli
137 Michael Denis Gale 1943
138 Samuel Gale 1682 British antiquarian
139 Gale Staley 1899 American baseball player
140 A. J. Gale 1987 Canadian ice hockey player
141 Richard Gale 1834 Australian farmer and politician
142 Miles Gale 1647 English antiquarian
143 Tommy Gale 1920 Professional footballer
144 Sunny Gale 1927
145 Jonny Gale 1994
146 Levin Gale 1784 American politician
147 Parnell Gale Irish mayor
148 James Gale 1986
149 Jack Gale 1899 Australian rules footballer
150 Robert Henry Otley Gale 1878 Canadian mayor
151 Becher Gale 1887 Canadian rower
152 Daniel De Gale
153 Charles Frederick Gale 1860
154 Marc van Gale 1986 German disc jockey
155 Ernest Gale 1914 British microbiologist
156 Oliver M. Gale 1910 American government official
157 Gale Owen-Crocker Emeritus professor of Anglo-Saxon literature
158 Walter Gale
159 Emilie Gale 1981 Dutch speed skater
160 Gale Hania Potestaat of Friesland
161 Nikita Gale 1983
162 George Gale
163 Henry Gale 1836 English cricketer
164 William Kendall Gale British missionary
165 Laurence George Gale 1905
166 John W. Gale American politician
167 Tone Gale 1944 Ice hockey player
168 Dave Gale Paralympic athlete of Great Britain
169 Gale Hess 1955 American musician
170 Frederick Gale 1823 English writer on cricket
171 Guy Gale
172 Tom Gale 1912
173 George Albert Gale 1893 American painter
174 Miha Gale 1977
175 Janet Gale
176 William Gale 1823 British painter (1823-1909)
177 Charles Gale American screenwriter
178 Gale Fitzgerald 1951 American pentathlete and hurdler
179 Ana Gale 1909
180 Alexander Gale 1892 New Zealand cricketer
181 Terry Gale 1938 Australian sprinter
182 Sherry Gale 1957
183 John Gale 1925 British journalist
184 Gale Hamkes
185 Jakob Gale 1953
186 Robert Gale 1925 American basketball player
187 Sadie Gale 1902
188 Jože Gale 1913
189 Gale Huntington
190 Gale S. McLaughlin
191 Gale Laverne Spears 1923
192 Humfrey Myddelton Gale 1890
193 Walter A. Gale 1855
194 Maurice Anthony Gale