Meaning and history
Probably derived from the ethnolinguistic term Gael, which denotes speakers of Gaelic languages.
20062006: 1,026 births, rank #314
2007: 1,168 births, rank #296
2008: 1,119 births, rank #298
2009: 1,003 births, rank #318
2010: 692 births, rank #408
20112011: 690 births, rank #410
2012: 2,745 births, rank #146
2013: 2,307 births, rank #177
2014: 1,809 births, rank #213
2015: 1,783 births, rank #220
20162016: 2,248 births, rank #178
2017: 2,239 births, rank #178
2018: 2,931 births, rank #132
2019: 2,900 births, rank #133
2020: 3,262 births, rank #112
20212021: 3,513 births, rank #109
2022: 3,509 births, rank #104
2023: 3,629 births, rank #100
2024: 3,872 births, rank #89
20252025: 3,860 births, rank #86
Gael rose from #89 to #86 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2024, with 3,872 births.