Gáel

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gáel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1Kas Gail
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.1Kas Gail

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gáel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

165,125 named Gail, 2020

#460 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
553 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GailLatin(measured from records)
גיילHebrew(measured from records)
가일Hangul(measured from records)
গেইলBengali(measured from records)
ΓκαελGreek(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gail in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Gael in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 3

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gáel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gáel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#223165,125as Gail1 in 2K162KGail553
BR Brazil—110,9461 in 1.9K111KGael56
GB United Kingdom#205≈59,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K3Gail257
CA Canada#198≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K3Gail241
EG Egypt—≈28,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Gail18
EC Ecuador—11,4861 in 1.5K11KGael18
IE Ireland#148≈4,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Gail62
NZ New Zealand#176≈4,300 est.≈1 in 1.1K15Gail110
SI Slovenia—3,109as Gal1 in 6763.2K—15

165,125 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gáel is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Also written Gael, Gaël, Gaèl

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gáel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mga, relationship, kinship

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gáel under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Gáel a male or female name?
Gáel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Gáel have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 165 thousand people named Gail, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gáel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gáel is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gáel?
In Brazil, the national register counted 110,946 people named Gáel in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Gáel compared with other names?
In the United States, Gáel is the 223rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gáel” — the 223rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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