Is Gale a pretty common name for a guy

[soleft]

Gale Gordon
Gale Seyers

Any others?

[lizziegrace]

1. Personally, I know 3 men named Gale

:shrug:

[Phillycat]

2. Gale Harold plays Brian Kinney on Queer as Folk

Sexy, sexy man!

[XNASA]

3. Shortened form of "Galend"?

I've known a couple of those, including an uncle.

[soleft]

5. Thanks, I want to name a character Gale

Is it too hokey if he's from Kansas tho?

[XNASA]

7. You mean like Dorothy Gale?

I would guess not.

[trof]

16. I know a Galen.

[soleft]

17. I think Galen was the name of Roddy McDowell's character in

planet of the Apes

[LynneSin]

4. Gale Snoats

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/

Ed McDonnough: You mean you busted out of jail.
Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
Gale: What my brother here means to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.



That's Gale on the left

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. There's

Gale Goodrich- LA Lakers
Gale Cogdill- Detroit Lions (1950's)

[HEyHEY]

8. Judge Gale Sinclair - in BC

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. The two you mentioned in your post were the only two male Gales I can think of...

so maybe at one point it was a more common male name

on second thought this site has a chart for how common it really is...looks like it was popular in the 40's and 50's but tapered off significantly
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Gale

[soleft]

10. thanks for the link

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. no problem

:)

[liberal hypnotist]

12. Gale?

Gale as in storm not to be confused with Gayle Storm.

[soleft]

13. cool, I forgot it could mean storm too - Gayle Storm

sounds familiar - who is that?

[NMDemDist2]

14. it's my DH's middle name

I dunno why :shrug:

[soleft]

18. designated hitter?

[NMDemDist2]

19. LOL on lucky nights, but mostly he's my Dear Husband n/t

[Sanity Claws]

15. Not common

In my entire life, I've only known one man named Gale.