Gabriel

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Gabriel boys named Gabriel

By the numbers

Total US births

402,627

Estimated living today

385,000

Median age today

19

Peak year

2008

Best rank

24th

Rank in 2025

37th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

6,849 / 395,778

How old the living Gabriels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 402,627 babies given the name since 1880, about 385,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 173,000 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Hebrew

From Latin Gabriel, from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ, from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (“God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (“strong man, hero”) and אֵל (“God, deity”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Gabriels

• Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921)Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
• Gabriel Boric (born 1986)president of Chile from 2022 to 2026
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736)German-Polish physicist and engineer
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791)French writer, orator and statesman
• Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969)Argentine association football player
• Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
• Gabriel Attal (born 1989)Prime Minister of France in 2024

People named Gabriel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Gabriel is most common

• CA67,262
• TX45,197
• FL24,428
• NY24,354
• IL14,502
• AZ12,511
• PA12,282
• OH12,078
• MI10,929
• NJ10,166

Relative to how many babies each state records, Gabriel is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.7×), Arizona (2.5×), Nevada (2.2×), Alaska (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular boys’ names the year Gabriel peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Alexander

All the names of 2008

Gabriel elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Gabriel: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Gabriel is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.83% of children were given it – 849 of them.

Gabriel: rank by region

In 2025, Gabriel was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 9 different years.

In 2015, Gabriel was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Gabriel was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Gabriel was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gabriel appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (Gabriel, 1st), Province of Hainaut (Gabriel, 1st), Province of Liège (Gabriel, 1st), Province of Luxembourg (Gabriel, 1st), Province of Namur (Gabriel, 1st), Brussels-Capital Region (Gabriel, 3rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (Gabriel, 4th), Province of Limburg (Gabriël, 43rd), Province of East Flanders (Gabriël, 86th), Province of Antwerp (Gabriel, 94th), Province of Antwerp (Gabriël, 106th), Province of East Flanders (Gabriel, 106th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Gabriël, 132nd), Province of West Flanders (Gabriel, 138th) and Province of Hainaut (Gabriël, 215th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Gabriel by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Gabriel among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 4,726 who carry it, 1,126 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Gabriel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 74,511 men called Gabriel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Gabrielle
• Gabriella
• Gabriela
• Gabe
• Gabriele
• Gabino
• Gabrial
• Gabriell
• Gaby
• Gabby
• Gable
• Gabryella

Gabriel against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Gabriel vs Gabrielle
• Gabriel vs Gabriella
• Gabriel vs Gabriela
• Gabriel vs Gabe
• Gabriel vs Gabriele
• Gabriel vs Gabino

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