Gale is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Gale is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Gale each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Gale will meet someone with the same name. So, Gale is a very special name!
Gale is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2021, where the name Gale was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Gale and were born in the USA in 2021 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Gale even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular first names: In 1947, it ranked on position 399 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gale was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Gale has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 6 times by young parents to their newborn children and thus landed at #22,363 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular first names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 6 children named Gale, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Gale'.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not particularly common as a first letter for given names: only 2.4% of all common first names in the US begin with a G. The most common initial letters for first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common first letters of given names.
With four letters, the name Gale 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 2.4% of all first names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Gale 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 Gale, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gale
Gale
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
A
L
E
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.
G
A
L
E
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. Gale sounds like this:
