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I've never read the Hunger Games books, but I do remember when my cousin told me about the name Gale and it being a guy. I liked it immediately.

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I think it could work in today's society. After all, the line between feminine and masculine names is blurring.

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I'd love to see a little Gale. Heck, I'd use it if my husband would let me. :)

I love Gale as a boy's name. Very handsome and reminds me of Gale from The Hunger Games.

When ever I see Gale, I feel the need to ville after it mainly because Galesville is the fictional town where one of my series takes place.

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I like both Gale and Gail, with Gale as the more masculine spelling while Gail/Gayle is more femimine. Over all I prefer it as a femimine name as a nickname for Abigail!

This message was edited 5/10/2012, 1:23 PM

Because I am not originally English, when I first saw the name Gale, I never even made the connection to it being a female name (all I 'saw' was the wind-thing). Later one when someone pointed out the Gail/Gayle vs Gale thing it made sense why people saw a 'female-connection' but because my first introduction to teh naem was male (ie Hunger Games) it's a male name to me.
So in short, i would use it.

Yeah, I think it's more usable and I like it. I get a very peaceful, green color from it. As long as you spell it Gale and not Gayle or Gail, Gaile he should be fine. Gale looks masculine to me. It's also kind of close to Dale. I don't like the name on a girl at all.

I haven't read "The Hunger Games" and I don't plan to, as it's a genre in which I have no interest, so maybe as a non-fan I'll be off-base here, but I'll go ahead and state my opinion anyway. I really feel that Gale, Gail, and Gayle are too established as girls' names to make Gale viable for a boy.

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There was the actor Gale Gordon, Lucille Ball's sidekick. He was named Charles at birth so evidently he chose the name Gale at some point. Nevertheless, he did so many years ago, since he was born in 1906 and is now dead, and perhaps Gale was not so firmly entrenched as a female name then, and celebrities can get away with things name-wise that ordinary people can't, anyway.

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My high-school gym teacher was named Gail and there was a Gayle in my elementary school class, and both were female, so I really can't think of it as a male name. Anyway, no matter how much I liked the sound of it, I really wouldn't want to give it to a son---I'd be afraid he'd hear "You have a girls' name" pretty often. I'm not saying there'd be TEASING, but just the simple statement about having a girls' name.

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It's not a hard-and-fast rule that use of an uncommon name in a popular book will lead to an increase in its use among the general population, so it's not like you can depend upon that happening.

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As far liking it, I don't like it for either a girl or a boy.