Gay

Proper noun

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
2. A unisex given name from English.

   1. A female given name from English, from the word gay (“joyful”); rare today.

   2. 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...

   3. A male given name from English.

      A male given name transferred from the surname.

   4. A male given name from English.

      A diminutive of the male given names Gaylord or 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...