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Gavino vs Gavriel

American parents have registered 2,059 Gavriels since 1880, against 1,782 Gavinos. Gavriel is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gavino Gavriel

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 105 years in which either name was published, Gavino for 79 years and Gavriel for 26 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Gavino Gavriel
Total US births 1,7822,059
Most in one year 43115
Babies in 2025 20115
Estimated living today 1,5002,000
Median age today 2612
Peak year 20082025
Best rank 2,788th boys1,514th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th1,514th
First recorded 19151974
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7825 / 2,054

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 Gavinos alive today are over 26; half the Gavriels are over 12. That is 14 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 Gavino Gavriel
France 1515

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: Gavino and Gavriel.