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Gabriel
Pronounced /ˈɡeɪ.bɹi.əl/
Rank in 2024
#43
Born in 2024
6,379
Peak year
2008 · #24
Origin
Latin
Also recorded for girls:23 in 2024 (#5,533)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 6,379 boys were named Gabriel, about 1 in every 269.
- It peaked in 2008 with 13,040 babies, ranked #24.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 389,106 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 2.1Millennials1981–96
- 5.7Gen Z1997–12
- 4.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,259 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 3,480 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,843 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen X: 31,302 babies, 1.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 62,799 babies, 2.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 177,492 babies, 5.65 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 103,621 babies, 4.77 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.