Gail is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Gail in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gail in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Gail by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Gail ranks at #6,004. That means there are 6,003 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 202,136 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Gail. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
#36 - this is the highest position Gail has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Gail reached this top position was in the last century, in 1951, when 10,065 newborn girls were named Gail. But as our statistics show, Gail has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1880, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Gail is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gail was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 13 newborns were given the name Gail, making them rank #6,991. Although the name Gail was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Gail are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Gail is one of them. However, Gail is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,116 women called Gail who live here are 0,379% of all female residents and push their name up to #77, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Rhode Island.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Gail is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gail and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gail, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gail
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
I
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gail sounds like this:
