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Gabriel

Pronounced /ˈɡeɪ.bɹi.əl/

Rank in 2024
#5,533
Born in 2024
23
Peak year
2000 · #784
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for boys:6,379 in 2024 (#43)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 23 girls were named Gabriel, about 1 in every 70,139.
  • It peaked in 2000 with 293 babies, ranked #784.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1910.
  • 6,839 girls have been named Gabriel since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Gabriel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 63 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 33 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 122 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 610 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,580 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,019 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 412 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin Gabriel, from Koine Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl), from גֶּבֶר (géḇer, “[strong] man”) or the triliteral root ג־ב־ר (g-b-r, “strength, manliness”), ־י (-i, “me, my, -'s”), and אֵל (ʾēl, “God, god”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-. Doublet of Jibril.

  • A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew].
Origin
Latin
Say it
/ˈɡeɪ.bɹi.əl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Gabriel, CC BY-SA 4.0.