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Gabe vs Gabryella

American parents have registered 4,110 Gabes since 1880, against 755 Gabryellas. Gabe is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gabe against Gabryella, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gabe Gabryella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gabe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Gabe had 70 and Gabryella had 42.

Side by side

  Gabe Gabryella
Total US births 4,110755
Most in one year 12666
Babies in 2025 2210
Estimated living today 3,400750
Median age today 2116
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 1,253rd boys2,754th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th9,457th
First recorded 18801994
Girls / boys 0 / 4,110755 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gabes alive today are over 21; half the Gabryellas are over 16. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gabe and Gabryella.