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Updated February 8, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Fertile moor

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German, Old English : One who pays or produces; corner of land

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Yale

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : habitational name for someone who lived in the commote of Iâl (near Wrexham in northeastern Wales), named with Welsh iâl ‘fertile or arable upland’.
  • Yale University in New Haven, CT, takes its name from an early benefactor, Elihu Yale (1649–1721), a merchant of Welsh ancestry. He was born in Boston into a family that originated in Wrexham, Wales; his father, David Yale, had settled in NH in 1637.

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