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Globally, ゲイ (Gay , Gaye , Gey ) is a common gender-neutral given name. The first name ゲイ is habitual in Senegal, where it is quite a common dominantly male, but infrequently female name, Mauritania, where it is quite a common boy's name, and Israel, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in the United States, Turkey, and Philippines. More frequently, ゲイ is the last name as well as the forename.
ゲイ is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Gay Ghost , the comics character; Gay Robot , the fictional character; Gay Ellis , the fictional character, UFO and Gay Brook , the operatic character in the opera The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten.