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Gabriel

Boys' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~385,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#37 among boys
Births in 2025
6,579 402,627 since 1880
Typical age
19 years, median

Gabriel popularity over time

Gabriel rank by birth year, 1880–2025Gabriel ranked #465 in 1880 and #37 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #21, in 2010.#100#37best #21 in 201018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2008: 13,188 births recorded as Gabriel. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Across the record, 48 years put Gabriel in the top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #37 with 6,579 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 40%.

Babies named Gabriel per yearPeaks at 13,188 births in 2008.13,188 in 2008018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Gabriel?

An estimated 385,700 living Americans are called Gabriel. That is out of 402,627 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Gabriel?

The typical living Gabriel is 19 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Gabriel a millennial-era name.

Your Gabriel

Ages of living people named GabrielHalf of living Gabriels are older than 19 and half younger.median 19020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Gabriel is most common

Alaska uses the name 2.2× as often as the country as a whole. Rhode Island, New Mexico and District of Columbia follow.

Where Gabriel is used more than average5 states use the name Gabriel more than the national average.Alaska: 2.2× the national rateAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.1× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 1.9× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: 2.0× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 2.0× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Gabriel is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Alaska 229 2.2×
Rhode Island 286 2.1×
New Mexico 559 2.0×
District of Columbia 278 2.0×
Delaware 238 1.9×

Gabriel in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Gabriel ranked #80 in 2025 on 666 births. That is 25% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Gabriel comes from

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-. Doublet of Jibril.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Gabriel

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer and Nobel laureate 1927–2014 206
Gabriel Lippmann Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French 1845–1921 94
Gabriel Boric president of Chile from 2022 to 2026 1986 86
Gabriel Batistuta Argentine association football player 1969 69
Gabriel Fauré French composer, organist, pianist and teacher 1845–1924 66
Gabriel Attal Prime Minister of France in 2024 1989 64
Gabriel Marcel French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist 1889–1973 61
Gabriel Jesus Brazilian association football player 1997 59
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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