Given name & surname
Gál
“rooster”
Gál is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Hungarian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gál goes back to Hungarian Gál, meaning “rooster.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Gál’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Gál has a diminutive in Galo. In Slovak usage, Gál has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form GAWEŁ. In Hungarian usage, Gál has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Havel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gál has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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