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Gaberiel vs Gabriele

American parents have registered 2,968 Gabrieles since 1880, against 572 Gaberiels. Gabriele is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gaberiel against Gabriele, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gaberiel Gabriele

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

Gabriele has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Gaberiel had 48 and Gabriele had 61.

Side by side

  Gaberiel Gabriele
Total US births 5722,968
Most in one year 48113
Babies in 2025 under 527
Estimated living today 5602,900
Median age today 1726
Peak year 20101998
Best rank 2,556th boys1,774th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19931954
Girls / boys 0 / 5722,078 / 890

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 Gabrieles alive today are over 26; half the Gaberiels are over 17. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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