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By Madison Dresler · Jul 2026

Yale

OriginWelsh
Meaning"vigorous, fertile"
GenderGirl
Also a boy's nameShow me Yale as a boy's name
NB Rank#8762

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About Yale

Variation of Yael

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 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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