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Gabriela vs Gabriele

American parents have registered 86,553 Gabrielas since 1880, against 2,968 Gabrieles. Gabriela is still ahead, with 961 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gabriela against Gabriele, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gabriela 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

Gabriela has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1903 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1961, when Gabriela had 39 and Gabriele had 25.

Side by side

  Gabriela Gabriele
Total US births 86,5532,968
Most in one year 3,369113
Babies in 2025 96127
Estimated living today 85,0002,900
Median age today 2326
Peak year 20031998
Best rank 102nd girls1,774th girls
Rank in 2025 317th14,942nd
First recorded 19031954
Girls / boys 86,182 / 3712,078 / 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 Gabrielas 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 Gabriela Gabriele
Italy 1,024138,310
Poland 73,855151
England and Wales 3,381813
France 2,6401,075
Switzerland 815983
Norway 631272
Belgium 493270
Ireland 551152
Scotland 2143
Northern Ireland 9127

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: Gabriela and Gabriele.