Gaelle

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'

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

/ɡaɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gaelle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 24th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 820(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.4K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈47,000 people, est.

Sources
357 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 820 (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaelle 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 Gaelle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#216≈47,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K47KGaelle357
CM Cameroon#24≈34,000 est.≈1 in 820—Gaelle41
CD Congo - Kinshasa#251≈5,100 est.≈1 in 20K—Gaelle12
BE Belgium#416≈2,100 est.≈1 in 5.6K10Gaelle90
US United States—9361 in 355K924Gaelle197
CH Switzerland#974≈630 est.≈1 in 13K—Gaelle50

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)

Gaelle is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Gaëlle, Gäelle, Gae͏̈lle, Gaélle, Gaêlle

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Gaëlle

  • Danish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Gaëlle

  • Finnish name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Gaëlle, Gaèlle

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, Russia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Gaëlle, Гаэлль, Гаелле, Gäelle

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Gaëlle

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Gaëlle Macé, b. 1953Gaëlle Josse, b. 1960Gaëlle Legrand, b. 1961Gaëlle Buniet, b. 1978Eva Green, b. 1980Gaëlle Bona, b. 1980Gaëlle Skrela, b. 1983Gaëlle Garcia Diaz, b. 1988Gaëlle Enganamouit, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Gaelle,Hi Gaelle, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 42 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaelle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)201747K#2,867
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020924#13,046
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202524—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012#13,046
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20045#1,293
FR FranceDictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007)———
FR FranceLe Grand Guide des Prénoms———

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

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Gaelle?
A machine transcription gives /ɡaɛl/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Gaelle mean, and where does it come from?
Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Gaelle a male or female name?
Gaelle is a female 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 Gaelle have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Gaelle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaelle.
How common is the name Gaelle?
In the United States, the national register counted 936 people named Gaelle in 2020, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
How common is Gaelle compared with other names?
In France, Gaelle is the 216th most common given name of 754,146 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, “Gaelle” — the 216th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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