Gal

Where Gal comes from

The dictionaries list Gal as a given name — a male or female given name from Hebrew גַּל — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Peak, #3,714
    9 babies named Gal — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male or female given name from Hebrew גַּל.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Gal hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.