Gabriela
Gabriela is a girl's name that peaked in 2003, when it was the 102nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 317th. About 85,000 Gabrielas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gabriela boys named Gabriela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 86,553
- Estimated living today
- 85,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 102nd
- Rank in 2025
- 317th
- First recorded
- 1903
- Girls / boys
- 86,182 / 371
How old the living Gabrielas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 86,553 babies given the name since 1903, about 85,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 25,000 of them are children and 290 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gabrielas
- Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)Chilean poet, diplomat and educator
- Gabriela Sabatini (born 1970)Argentine tennis player
- Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921)Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress
- Gabriela Szabo (born 1975)Romanian athletics (sport) competitor
- Gabriela Gunčíková (born 1993)Czech singer
- Gabriela Soukalová (born 1989)Czech biathlete
- Gabriela Spanic de Galleguillos (born 1973)Venezuelan actress
- María Gabriela Isler (born 1988)Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder
People named Gabriela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gabriela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gabriela is most concentrated in California (3.0×), Nevada (2.8×), Florida (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Gabriela peaked:
Gabriela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Gabriela | 73,855 birth registrations | 17th |
| Spain girls | Gabriela | 11,365 | 64th |
| England and Wales girls | Gabriela | 3,381 | 246th |
| France girls | Gabriela +2 spellings | 2,640 | 367th |
| Italy girls | Gabriela | 1,024 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Gabriela | 815 | 180th |
| Norway girls | Gabriela | 631 | 267th |
| Ireland girls | Gabriela | 551 | 119th |
| Belgium girls | Gabriela | 493 | 289th |
| Scotland girls | Gabriela | 214 | 238th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Gabriela | 91 | 208th |
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.
Gabriela: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Gabriela | 498 | 0.040% | 157th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Gabriela | 299 | 0.069% | 81st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Gabriela | 13 | 0.020% | 123rd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Gabriela | 5 | 0.134% | 15th |
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, Gabriela is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.08% of children were given it – 85 of them.
Gabriela: rank by region
In 2025, Gabriela was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Gabriela | 584 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Gabriela | 365 | 7 |
In 2017, Gabriela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Gabriela | 10 | 2 |
In 2025, Gabriela was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Gabriela | 27 | 100 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Gabriela | 19 | 104 |
| Lubelskie | Gabriela | 21 | 95 |
| Lubuskie | Gabriela | 26 | 35 |
| Łódzkie | Gabriela | 26 | 89 |
| Małopolskie | Gabriela | 20 | 205 |
| Mazowieckie | Gabriela | 18 | 355 |
| Opolskie | Gabriela | 48 | 13 |
| Podkarpackie | Gabriela | 33 | 73 |
| Podlaskie | Gabriela | 17 | 68 |
| Pomorskie | Gabriela | 28 | 96 |
| Śląskie | Gabriela | 42 | 82 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Gabriela | 23 | 48 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Gabriela | 21 | 60 |
| Wielkopolskie | Gabriela | 12 | 258 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Gabriela | 24 | 64 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gabriela appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (191st) and Province of Antwerp (308th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Gabriela by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 41 | 188th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Gabriela 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Gabriela | 179 | 492 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Gabriela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 24,463 women called Gabriela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Gabriela | 1,019 | 1.838 | 83 |
| Segovia | Gabriela | 142 | 1.801 | 117 |
| Cantabria | Gabriela | 509 | 1.663 | 123 |
| Madrid | Gabriela | 5,682 | 1.533 | 123 |
| Palmas, Las | Gabriela | 831 | 1.409 | 101 |
| Guadalajara | Gabriela | 163 | 1.160 | 152 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Gabriela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.