Gale (given name)
| Pronunciation | /ˈɡeɪl/ GAYL |
|---|---|
| Gender | masculine |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | from Gale (surname) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɡeɪl/ GAYL |
|---|---|
| Gender | feminine |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | short for Abigail |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Gayle, |
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.[1]
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.
People called Gale
Men
- Gale Gordon (1906–1995), American actor
- Gale Harold who played Brian Kinney in Queer As Folk US, American actor.
Women
- Gale Ann Hurd (born 1955), American film producer and screenwriter
- Gale Benson (1944–1972), British model and socialite
- Gayle Liuzza (born 1959), Louisiana businesswoman and political activist
- Gale Norton (born 1954), 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
Pseudonym
- Gale Storm, pseudonym of Josephine Owaissa Cottle (1922–2009), American actress
Fictional characters
- Gale Boetticher, from the TV series Breaking Bad
- Gale Weathers-Riley, from the Scream films
- Gale Hawthorne, from The Hunger Games
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