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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.
Editor's take: The name Yale is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "vigorous, fertile".
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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 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
Yale in blog posts
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