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Gay en · PROPN

Meanings

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
2. A unisex given name from English. ▸ A female given name from English, from the word gay (“joyful”); rare today.
3. A unisex given name from English. ▸ A male given name from English.
   • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name." "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay. Even in Nevada. Was old Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids. 2004, Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 32:
4. A unisex given name from English. ▸ A male given name from English. ▸ A male given name transferred from the surname.
5. A unisex given name from English. ▸ A male given name from English. ▸ A diminutive of the male given names Gaylord and Gabriel, and similar names
   • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese (whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized form "Gay"), was an atypically fearless traveler, 1992, Gay Talese, Unto the Sons, Ballantine Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 15:

Forms

Deriveds

Hampton Gay · Fort Gay · Gay Hill · Gay-Lussac's law · Gayville