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Gabrial vs Gabriele

American parents have registered 2,968 Gabrieles since 1880, against 1,891 Gabrials. Gabriele is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gabrial 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 72 years in which either name was published, Gabriele for 60 years and Gabrial for 12 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Gabrial Gabriele
Total US births 1,8912,968
Most in one year 106113
Babies in 2025 under 527
Estimated living today 1,8002,900
Median age today 2326
Peak year 20071998
Best rank 1,607th boys1,774th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19641954
Girls / boys 264 / 1,6272,078 / 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 Gabrials are over 23. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gabrial Gabriele
England and Wales 14813

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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