Gabriela

What Gabriela means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gabriela yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 3,362 babies; 961 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gabriela?

US: Falling: down from #256 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #263 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 3,362 girls got the name (#102 that year). First in the US records in 1903.

How common

• About 1 in 1,672 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,127 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (1.85 per 1,000 girls), FL (1.58 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Gabriela is #317 in the US and #490 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gabriela were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gabriella2,545 US · 274 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gabriela

Girls

• Abby#731Diminutive of Abigail, meaning “my Father's joy”^*
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Hannah#56“grace, gracious, graced with child”^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025
• Elisabeth#925“my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Seth#581“chosen one, appointed, placed”^*
• Nathaniel#140“God has given”^*
• Nathan#63“gave”^*
• Ruben#480Editor’s note Down from #374 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 in the US
• Jacob#43“May He Heel”^*
• Samuel#18“God has set or God has placed”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gabriela’s. Rank is US 2025.