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Yale
OriginWelsh
Meaning"fertile upland"
GenderBoy
NB Rank#4106
On Nameberry
About Yale
The name Yale peaked for boys at #1302 in 1916.
Popularity & trends
US popularity — history
US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025
Actual · SSA
20142025
18802025
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Yales
- The Collegiate School
founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony, was renamed Yale College in 1718 in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, who was governor of the British East India Company.
- Yale Boss
American child actor of the silent screen
Yale in pop culture
- Yale University is a private Ivy League university in New Haven
Connecticut.
- The yale of Beaufort
a mythical animal resembling an antelope with a pair of horns and a pair of tusks; found in the armorial bearings of the Beaufort family
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