Comments for GAËL:

This spelling has been transformed by the French. The Breton original is not supposed to have an "ë". It may come from a saint of Gaelic origin (a big number of the saints famous in Brittany. No reason to relate it with GWENAEL which meaning may be "the white angel" or it may come also from gwen-ahel.

-- kej  5/6/2006

Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, from Y Tu Mama Tambien (English: And Your Mother Too) and in Diarios de Motocicleta (English: The Motorcyle Diaries) as Che Guevara, bears this name.

-- Laurea  8/18/2006

There is the same one with another origin: Gael (Gah-El) in Hebrew. It's a rare Jewish name, its meaning is "disembarrassing", "emancipation".

-- Ada  5/9/2007

My research shows that the Gaels were originally an Irish tribe who have subsequently spread to Scotland and the Isle of Man, and appear to be the originators of the Gaelic language.

Different spellings of this name seem to have different meanings: "Gale" refers to the English synonym for "storm", while the spelling, "Gayle" is derived from the Old English spelling for "gaily", meaning "happy", as is the spelling "Gail".

-- leananshae  12/3/2007

I have always been told that the Gaels were the Scottish Highlanders and well know for their fighting ability.
Gael is also part of the word Gaelic which is the name the Irish use for their language. Having ancestors from both Scotland and Ireland, I think I was named apropriately.

-- Anonymous User  6/8/2008

In Irish, Gael is the word for Irishman, or in general, Irish person.

-- Undine  3/8/2009

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