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GAIL
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Gail, GAYLE means "father rejoices."
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew, Indian, Jamaican
Lively; My Father is Joy; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing; Abigail
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Gale, GAIL means "calm, tranquil."
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew
Joyful; My Father is Joyful; Father of Exaltation; Father Rejoices
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius (from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’). This was the name of a 7th-century Provençal hermit, whose cult popularized the name in a variety of more or less mutilated forms: Gidi and Gidy in southern France, Gil(l)i in the area of the Alpes-Maritimes, and Gil(l)e elsewhere. This last form was taken over to England by the Normans, but by the 12th century it was being confused with the Germanic names Gisel, a short form of Gilbert, and Gilo, which is from Gail (as in Gaillard).Irish : adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name, based on glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.
Boy/Male
French, German
Lively; High-spirited
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
Female
English
Short form of English Abigail, GAIL means "father rejoices."
Boy/Male
English American
Lively.
Girl/Female
Hebrew American English
Father rejoiced, or father's joy. Gives joy. The intelligent, beautiful Abigail was Old Testament...
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Gales.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire named Gailey, from Old English gagel ‘bog-myrtle’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.In some instances, an altered spelling of South German Gailer (variant of Geiler) or of Swiss Gälli (see Gall).
Boy/Male
Irish
Stranger.
Boy/Male
British, English, Gaelic, Irish
Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; Stranger
Girl/Female
English
Joyful. Abbreviation of Abigail. Gael is a term for descendants of the ancient Celts in Scotland;...
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Gail, GAILA means "father rejoices."
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : nickname from French
gaillard ‘strong’, ‘robust’, possibly from Gaulish galia
‘strength’ + the suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : from Old French
gaile ‘cheerful’ (of Germanic origin; compare Gale 1) +
the pejorative suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : Gaillard was brought to America by the Huguenots, and is sometimes
Americanized as
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, Gaelic, Irish, Jamaican
Lively; Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing
Surname or Lastname
Dutch
Dutch : perhaps a patronymic from the Germanic personal name Gailo; otherwise, a variant of Gillis.English and Scottish : possibly, as Black proposes, a variant of Giles.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Gale.French : nickname from Old French gail ‘cheerful’, ‘jolly’.German : variant of Geil.
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Boy/Male
Tamil
Of the Aryan race, Ancient, Warrior
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Starry Night
Male
English
English surname, transferred to forename use, DAWSON means "son of Daw (David)."
Female
Norse
Old Norse name composed of the elements regin "advice, counsel, decision" and hildr "battle," hence "battle counsel."
Male
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Greek BeniamÃn, BENJ�MIN means "son of the right hand."
Boy/Male
Muslim
Honorable, Outstanding
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Vishnu, Husband of Lakshmi
Boy/Male
Hebrew
God is my judge.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably from an otherwise unrecorded Old English personal name, cognate with the attested Continental Germanic form Timmo. This is of uncertain origin, perhaps a short form of Dietmar. The personal name Timothy was not in use in England until Tudor times, and is therefore not a likely source of this surname, which is medieval in origin.North German and Dutch : from a short form of the medieval personal name Dietmar.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Speech; The Spoken Word
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n.
A jailer.
n.
A lively French and Italian dance.
adv.
Merrily; showily. See gaily.
adv.
In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
a.
A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
a.
Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.