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Yale

Welsh
"vigorous, fertile"
Madison Dresler
By Madison Dresler
Updated Tue Feb 03 2026

Yale Origin and Meaning

Variation of Yael

Famous People Named Yale

  • 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.

The name Yale in Pop Culture

  • Yale University is a private Ivy League university in New Haven
    Connecticut.
  • Yale Rose
    Blair Waldorf's younger sister in the "Gossip Girl" books

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