Gabriel
Gabriel is ranked 43rd among boys in 2024 (6,379 births). Its best rank was 21st, in 2010.
- Rank in 2024
- #43down 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,3790.37% of boys
- Peak year
- 200813,040 births
- Best rank
- #21in 2010
- Since 1880
- 395,945people given the name
The story in the numbers
389,106 boys have been named Gabriel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 13,040 births — 0.64% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 24 → 43).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 47 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 6,839 girls have also been given it, 1.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gabriel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 147 | |
| 1890s | 144 | |
| 1900s | 234 | |
| 1910s | 1,335 | |
| 1920s | 2,201 | |
| 1930s | 1,839 | |
| 1940s | 2,039 | |
| 1950s | 3,204 | |
| 1960s | 6,162 | |
| 1970s | 24,395 | |
| 1980s | 32,321 | |
| 1990s | 54,813 | |
| 2000s | 119,827 | |
| 2010s | 105,584 | |
| 2020s | 34,861 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Gabriel was the 24th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Gabriel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleksandarpeak 2005
- Ajaypeak 2011
- Seamuspeak 2008
- Cavanpeak 2008
- Giancarlopeak 2008
- Krishnapeak 2007
- Mauriciopeak 2008
- Roshanpeak 2010
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.