Gaelle
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaelle is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'.
- CMCameroon1 in 726◐
- BEBelgium1 in 2.7K
- FRFrance1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 345 ●
- 1 in 5.3K ◐
across 7 countries
219K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaèlle in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #263 | 12,760 | 200K rec. | 1 in 5.3K | 47K | Gaelle | 345 |
| BE Belgium | #311 | 5,814 | 3.6K rec. | — | 10 | Gaelle | 85 |
| CM Cameroon | #20 | 2,686 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Gaelle | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,500 | 575 rec. | — | 1 | Gaelle | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 987 | 783 rec. | — | listed | Gaelle | 69 |
| US United States | — | 924 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 360K | 924 | Gaelle | 182 |
| AU Australia | — | 605 | 545 rec. | — | — | Gaelle | 56 |
| CH Switzerland | #975 | 602 | 420 rec. | — | — | Gaelle | 47 |
| MQ Martinique | #274 | 556 | 9 rec. | — | 5 | Gaelle | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | 403 | 401 rec. | — | — | Gaelle | 64 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #431 | 306 | 9 rec. | — | 5 | Gaelle | 7 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #306 | 242 | 407 rec. | — | — | Gaèlle | 11 |
Roughly 13K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 5.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French371K97%
- English4.7K1%
- Dutch1.9K1%
- Spanish1.2K1%
- Vietnamese5381%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 370,550 | 97% |
| English | 4,673 | 1% |
| Dutch | 1,911 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,179 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 538 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 24 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gaëlle Macéb. 1953FRFrench screenwriter
- Gaëlle Josseb. 1960FRFrench poet and novelist
- Gaëlle Legrandb. 1961FRFrench actress
- Gaëlle Bunietb. 1978FRFrench rower
- Eva Greenb. 1980FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Gaëlle Bonab. 1980FRFrench actress
- Gaëlle Skrelab. 1983FRFrench basketball player (born 1983)
- Gaëlle Garcia Diazb. 1988BEBelgian model
- Gaëlle Enganamouitb. 1992CMCameroonian footballer
- Gaëlle CoqueugniotFRancient historian and classical archaeologist specializing in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 42 sources across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 302 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gaelle?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Gaelle (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gaelle have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Gaelle in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gaelle.
- How common is Gaelle compared with other names?
- In France, Gaelle is the 263rd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Gaelle a male or female name?
- Gaelle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Gaelle mean?
- Recorded meaning: Feminine of Gaël; Celtic/Breton origin, 'generous lord'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaelle” — the 263rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.