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Gabriel vs Gabryelle

American parents have registered 402,627 Gabriels since 1880, against 557 Gabryelles. Gabriel is still ahead, with 6,579 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gabriel against Gabryelle, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gabriel Gabryelle

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

Gabriel 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 1998, when Gabriel had 7,325 and Gabryelle had 30.

Side by side

  Gabriel Gabryelle
Total US births 402,627557
Most in one year 13,18838
Babies in 2025 6,579under 5
Estimated living today 385,000550
Median age today 1921
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 24th boys4,050th girls
Rank in 2025 37thunranked
First recorded 18801988
Girls / boys 6,849 / 395,778557 / 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 Gabryelles alive today are over 21; half the Gabriels are over 19. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Gabriel Gabryelle
France 212,285110

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: Gabriel and Gabryelle.