Gay (given name)
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Gay (alternatively Gaye) is a female or male given name, the 795th ("Gay") and 1295th ("Gaye") most common female name in the United States, according to the 1990 U.S. census.[1]
It can also be used as a short form of the female names Gaynell and Gaynor and as a short form of the male names Gaylen and Gaylord.
The writer Gay Talese's name is derived from Gaetano, his grandfather's name.
The first name of the popular male Irish television presenter Gabriel Byrne was always abbreviated as "Gay", as in the title of his radio show The Gay Byrne Show.
People with the given name Gay
- Gay Bryan (born 1927), American long and triple jumper
- Gay Brewer (1932–2007), American golfer
- Gay Byrne (born 1934), Irish broadcaster
- Gay Hamilton (born 1943), Scottish actress
- Gay Hendricks (born 1945), American author and psychologist
- Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro (born 1954), American Olympic foil fencer
- Gay Kayler (born 1941), Australian singer
- Gay Kindersley (1930–2011), British champion amateur jump jockey and horse trainer
- Gay McDougall (born 1947), American human rights activist
- Gay McManus (born 1958), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Gay Mitchell (born 1951), Irish former Fine Gael politician
- Gay Seabrook (1901–1970), American actress
- Gay Search, British horticulturalist
- Gay Talese (born 1932), American author
- Gay Thompson (born 1948), Australian Labor member for the electoral district of Reynell from 1997 to 2014
- Gay Woods (born 1948), Irish musician and singer
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