Gale

At the 2020 census, 14,988 Americans bore the surname Gale — 2,378th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,900.

By the numbers

People: 14,988
Rank: 2,378th
How common: 1 in 19,900
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gale described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.7%
Black, not Hispanic 9.5%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gale

Zona Gale (1874–1938)American author and playwright
Bob Gale (born 1951)American screenwriter, producer and film director
Tristan Gale (born 1980)American skeleton racer
Kelly Gale (born 1995)Swedish-Australian model
Garrett Weber-Gale (born 1985)American swimmer
Megan Gale (born 1975)Australian model
Lorena Gale (1958–2009)Canadian actress
David Gale (1921–2008)American mathematician

People named Gale with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gale

Also a first name

Gale has been given to 32,343 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.