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What is your reaction to the name Gale for a boy? Would you use it? What about Galen vs. Gale? Which middle name(s) would you use after Gale?
Do you agree or disagree that while Gail for a woman feels very middle-aged and drab, that Gale for a male is very evocative?
Do you agree or disagree that while Gail for a woman feels very middle-aged and drab, that Gale for a male is very evocative?
This message was edited 2/2/2016, 9:18 AM
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I really like Gale, in theory. But it's too... Nondescript I think- neither here nor there, as far as gender goes. And I like a LOT of gender bending names. Gale is gentle with delicate features, but it lacks any backbone on a guy, I'm afraid to say. I don't know what it is, I love "feminine" names on boys but it's like, this one only gets halfway there. I'd be delighted to see it on someone else, I'd just have a hard time getting fully behind it for use myself.
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I dislike it no matter which gender you put it on. It bores me and I see it more as a woman's name anyway.
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I can only see Gale on a woman. I don't like it as a boys' name.
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I didn't blink when I heard it in The Hunger Games, but then they also had Thresh, Cato, Haymitch, Katniss, Wiress, Castor, Pollux, Tigris, Plutarch, Clover, and other unusual names. But I have trouble seeing it in real life. Gail is joining the grandparents' names category. It's the name of my mom's has a cousin and an aunt's sister.
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I prefer Galen to Gale but dislike both although I wouldn't really have much of an opinion about Galen being used in real life. It would actually be kind of cool to see it used.
Gale is too Hunger Games for me, I think. It's also too closely tied in sound to the many middle aged women I have met named Gail or Gayle so I don't find it appealing. The word also doesn't seem namey to me, a bit like Storm- it isn't a particularly nice natural event when it's blowing a gale and so it doesn't have any positive association for me.
Gale is too Hunger Games for me, I think. It's also too closely tied in sound to the many middle aged women I have met named Gail or Gayle so I don't find it appealing. The word also doesn't seem namey to me, a bit like Storm- it isn't a particularly nice natural event when it's blowing a gale and so it doesn't have any positive association for me.
This message was edited 2/2/2016, 1:26 PM
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I think Gale sounds feminine. The only male Gale I have ever heard of is from the Hunger Games and I wouldn't name someone Gale any more than I would name them Katniss or Peeta!
Gail does sound middle aged and a bit boring, but I don't think Gale is evocative.
Gail does sound middle aged and a bit boring, but I don't think Gale is evocative.
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Gale is fine for a boy. Gale Hawthorne is a male character in The Hunger Games.
I wouldn't use it as I dislike the name but I can imagine it on teenage boys.
Definitely prefer Gale over Galen. Galen doesn't look or sound nice at all.
Gale Anselm
Gale Jude
Gale Ormonde
Gale Fredrick
Gale Henry
Gale Reid
Gale Auberon
Gale Clarence
Gale Leigh
Gale Kennard
Gale Terrance
Gale Bradley
Gale Arthur
Gale Dominic
Gale Mark
I wouldn't use it as I dislike the name but I can imagine it on teenage boys.
Definitely prefer Gale over Galen. Galen doesn't look or sound nice at all.
Gale Anselm
Gale Jude
Gale Ormonde
Gale Fredrick
Gale Henry
Gale Reid
Gale Auberon
Gale Clarence
Gale Leigh
Gale Kennard
Gale Terrance
Gale Bradley
Gale Arthur
Gale Dominic
Gale Mark
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Thanks, I am unfamiliar with those books/films.
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Gale looks more masculine than feminine to me, so yes.
On the negative side, the sound + that spelling make me think a little of windstorms and hurricanes (or metaphorical ones) which is kinda negative for a name IMO (like Tempest), and of "gales of laughter," which I think would also be more negative than positive for a name. I can get connotations of bombast and clumsiness.
On the positive side, which matters much more when I meet a person with a name, I think it also sounds expansive and substantial. So, I think it's a pretty good name but it doesn't strike me in that favorite, I-would-use-it way.
Galen is a decent name too - kinda too dorky, though, like Gordon, nms. I prefer Gale over Galen because that -en ending that makes it softer, and it seems relatively softened-up without actually being soft at all.
A crisper sounding middle name like Nicholas or Timothy or Michael or Patrick?
On the negative side, the sound + that spelling make me think a little of windstorms and hurricanes (or metaphorical ones) which is kinda negative for a name IMO (like Tempest), and of "gales of laughter," which I think would also be more negative than positive for a name. I can get connotations of bombast and clumsiness.
On the positive side, which matters much more when I meet a person with a name, I think it also sounds expansive and substantial. So, I think it's a pretty good name but it doesn't strike me in that favorite, I-would-use-it way.
Galen is a decent name too - kinda too dorky, though, like Gordon, nms. I prefer Gale over Galen because that -en ending that makes it softer, and it seems relatively softened-up without actually being soft at all.
A crisper sounding middle name like Nicholas or Timothy or Michael or Patrick?
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