Gabriel
26,489 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gabriel in the 2020 census, making it the 1,302nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 26,489
- Rank
- 1,302nd
- How common
- 1 in 11,300
- Per 100,000
- 8.9
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gabriel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gabriel
- Peter Gabriel (born 1950)British singer and musician
- Sigmar Gabriel (born 1959)German politician (SPD)
- R'Bonney Gabriel (born 1994)American beauty pageant titleholder
- Juan Gabriel (1950–2016)Mexican singer and songwriter
- Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782)French architect
- Gabriel (born 1992)Brazilian footballer
- Fellype Gabriel (born 1985)Brazilian association football player
- Justin Gabriel (born 1981)South African professional wrestler
People named Gabriel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gabriel
Also a first name
Gabriel has been given to 402,627 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.