Gaél
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern form related to Gaelic/Irish names; meaning often given as ‘generous, noble’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Gaél is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.9K
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 Gaél 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)
- #460 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 553 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
165,125 named Gail, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gail in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Gael in FR France, 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
(measured from records)Modern form related to Gaelic/Irish names; meaning often given as ‘generous, noble’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gaél 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #223 | 165,125as Gail | 1 in 2K | 162K | Gail | 553 |
| BR Brazil | — | 110,946 | 1 in 1.9K | 111K | Gael | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | #205 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 989 | 3 | Gail | 257 |
| CA Canada | #198 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 3 | Gail | 241 |
| FR France | #337 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 28K | Gael | 340 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,486 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Gael | 18 |
| IE Ireland | #148 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Gail | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | #176 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 15 | Gail | 110 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 3,109as Gal | 1 in 676 | 3.2K | — | 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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Gaél is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Breton/Irish Gaelic, often 'generous' or 'Gael'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Prénom donné chez les peuples celtiques écossais puis irlandais.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaél mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern form related to Gaelic/Irish names; meaning often given as ‘generous, noble’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Gaél a male or female name?
- Gaél is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gaél 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 Gaél most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaél 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 Gaél?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 110,946 people named Gaél in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaél compared with other names?
- In the United States, Gaél is the 223rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C3%A9lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gaél” — the 223rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.