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Yale
OriginWelsh
Meaning"vigorous, fertile"
About Yale
Ivy League choice many will mistake for the Israeli favorite Yael, which has a different root and meaning.
Pronounced YAYL.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
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- 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.
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- 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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