# Gale (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gale/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 32,343 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12,437 / 19,906 (62% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 11 | 7,483 |
| 1991 | 9 | 8,833 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,859 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,170 |
| 1995 | 7 | 10,897 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,246 |
| 1998 | 8 | 10,436 |
| 1999 | 6 | 13,241 |
| 2000 | 5 | 15,860 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,208 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,470 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,257 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,709 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,902 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,986 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | 12,027 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,127 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,177 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,064 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,364 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,016 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,120 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,773 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,136 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,094 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,904 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,327 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,028 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,583 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,581 |

## People named Gale

- Gale Sondergaard, American actress (1899–1985)
- Gale Harold, actor
- Gale Anne Hurd, American film producer and screenwriter (born 1955)
- Gale Storm, American actress, singer (1922–2009)
- Gale Robbins, American singer, and actress (1921-1980)
- Gale Gordon, American actor (1906–1995)
- Gale Hansen, American actor
- Gale Henry, American actress
- Gale W. McGee, American politician (1915-1992)
- Joan Gale Robinson, English novelist and illustrator (1910–1988)
- Gale Sayers, American professional football player (1943-2020)
- Gale Bruno van Albada, Dutch astronomer (1912–1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.