Gayle (first name)
Gayle is a female (rarely male) given name .
Origin and meaning
Gayle comes from English and is a variant of the given name Gail . As a female first name, this is derived from Abigail .
Name bearers
- Gayle Barron (* 1945), American marathon runner
- Gayle Hunnicutt (born 1943), American actress
- Gayle Levant (* 1941/42), American musician
- Gayle Lynds (* 19 ..), American author
- Gayle Rubin (* 1949), American feminist
- Gayle San (* 1967), DJ and producer in the field of electronic dance music from Singapore
- Gayle Tufts (* 1960), American entertainer
Name bearer
- Gayle Griffith (* 1940), American country and rockabilly musician
- Gayle Dean Wardlow (* 1940), American blues researcher
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A concise dictionary of first names, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0198600941