Gabriella

What Gabriella means

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

Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gabriella?

US: Falling: down from #54 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #136 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2010, when 6,185 girls got the name (#33 that year). First in the US records in 1890.

How common

• About 1 in 632 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 924 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 778 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 RI (6.53 per 1,000 girls), DE (5.76 per 1,000 girls), CT (5.3 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Gabriella is #105 in the US and #181 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 Gabriella were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gabriela961 US · 81 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 Gabriella

Girls

• Daniella#468Form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Jordyn#371Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #136 in 2015, #371 in 2025
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Isabela#664Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 6 babies
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Jeremiah#88“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Isaiah#57Editor’s note Down from #49 in 2015 to #57 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 320 US boys in the 2025 records
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025

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