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Gable vs Gabriele

American parents have registered 2,968 Gabrieles since 1880, against 810 Gables. Gabriele is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gable 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

Of the 95 years in which either name was published, Gabriele for 72 years and Gable for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Gable Gabriele
Total US births 8102,968
Most in one year 23113
Babies in 2025 1827
Estimated living today 6602,900
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20091998
Best rank 4,278th boys1,774th girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th14,942nd
First recorded 19091954
Girls / boys 6 / 8042,078 / 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 Gables are over 22. That is 4 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: Gable and Gabriele.