Gay vs Stone

Gay

name
  • A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname. 

  • A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today. 

  • An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person. 

Stone

name
  • A male given name 

  • A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575). 

  • An unincorporated community in Wisconsin. 

  • A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034). 

  • An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan. 

  • An unincorporated community in Indiana. 

  • An unincorporated community in California. 

  • An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone. 

  • A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774). 

  • A village in Buckinghamshire. 

  • A village in Gloucestershire. 

How often have the words Gay and Stone occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )