Girl
Gail
Gail is a girl's name, widely recognized, that was at its most popular in the 1950s and is rarely chosen now.
Old EnglishDiminutive of Abigail
Old EnglishFather's joy
Births by decade
1900s
414
1910s
2,252
1920s
3,462
1930s
17,720
1940s
55,156
1950s
86,919
1960s
33,341
1970s
7,380
1980s
2,234
1990s
753
2000s
282
2010s
134
Peaked in the 1950s · 210,047 total U.S. births since 1900