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My grandfather's name isn't listed. I think it's just a variant of something else, but I'm not sure.
Name: Gayln (pronounced "gay-lin")
Gender: m
His background was German, but names often get mixed from culture to culture for various reasons.... Has anyone ever heard of that name before?
Name: Gayln (pronounced "gay-lin")
Gender: m
His background was German, but names often get mixed from culture to culture for various reasons.... Has anyone ever heard of that name before?
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With this spelling and pronunciation it is unlikely the name has anything to do with his German ancestry. It is probably just an unusual respelling of "Galen", the name of a famous ancient Roman physician whose name may come from a Greek word meaning "calm". Galen was regularly used as a given name in the USA throughout most of the 20th century.
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Yeah, I thought it sounded really "un"-German. Thanks!
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