Primarily a boy's name · 98% boys
Origin: HebrewGabriel is a given name derived from the Hebrew name Gaḇrīʾēl meaning "God's man".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Gabriel yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Gabriel reached its best-ever rank, #21, in 2010, two years on from the birth-count peak of 13,040 in 2008 — a short lag similar to Isaac's.
Since then it's slid to #43, with 6,379 births in 2024 — 42% fewer than a decade earlier, a decline close to Jackson's in scale.
The famous-bearer list is unusually varied in tone — novelist Jules Verne, dictator Robert Mugabe, gangster Al Capone, physicist Gabriel Lippmann, and Chile's president Gabriel Boric — spanning fiction, politics, crime, and science in a way that doesn't cluster around any single kind of public figure the way Carter's or Maverick's shorter, more contemporary lists do.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 15 | #472 |
| 1881 | 17 | #423 |
| 1882 | 20 | #403 |
| 1883 | 10 | #611 |
| 1884 | 21 | #388 |
| 1885 | 11 | #587 |
| 1886 | 13 | #522 |
| 1887 | 18 | #397 |
| 1888 | 13 | #564 |
| 1889 | 9 | #690 |
| 1890 | 15 | #496 |
| 1891 | 10 | #616 |
| 1892 | 10 | #707 |
| 1893 | 16 | #468 |
| 1894 | 22 | #402 |
| 1895 | 14 | #565 |
| 1896 | 18 | #488 |
| 1897 | 10 | #699 |
| 1898 | 17 | #512 |
| 1899 | 12 | #593 |
| 1900 | 19 | #564 |
| 1901 | 21 | #414 |
| 1902 | 23 | #430 |
| 1903 | 18 | #510 |
| 1904 | 14 | #625 |
| 1905 | 29 | #397 |
| 1906 | 16 | #598 |
| 1907 | 21 | #521 |
| 1908 | 34 | #409 |
| 1909 | 39 | #391 |
| 1910 | 41 | #425 |
| 1911 | 47 | #420 |
| 1912 | 84 | #427 |
| 1913 | 114 | #405 |
| 1914 | 131 | #418 |
| 1915 | 173 | #408 |
| 1916 | 174 | #428 |
| 1917 | 190 | #410 |
| 1918 | 190 | #423 |
| 1919 | 191 | #425 |
| 1920 | 201 | #420 |
| 1921 | 219 | #410 |
| 1922 | 194 | #433 |
| 1923 | 209 | #415 |
| 1924 | 235 | #395 |
| 1925 | 202 | #423 |
| 1926 | 202 | #427 |
| 1927 | 247 | #373 |
| 1928 | 255 | #366 |
| 1929 | 237 | #374 |
| 1930 | 220 | #385 |
| 1931 | 209 | #388 |
| 1932 | 184 | #413 |
| 1933 | 188 | #395 |
| 1934 | 163 | #443 |
| 1935 | 178 | #414 |
| 1936 | 202 | #385 |
| 1937 | 172 | #431 |
| 1938 | 170 | #442 |
| 1939 | 153 | #466 |
| 1940 | 193 | #420 |
| 1941 | 206 | #410 |
| 1942 | 194 | #444 |
| 1943 | 199 | #450 |
| 1944 | 194 | #440 |
| 1945 | 163 | #466 |
| 1946 | 173 | #488 |
| 1947 | 236 | #437 |
| 1948 | 216 | #453 |
| 1949 | 265 | #420 |
| 1950 | 258 | #418 |
| 1951 | 246 | #433 |
| 1952 | 262 | #432 |
| 1953 | 275 | #422 |
| 1954 | 291 | #421 |
| 1955 | 332 | #399 |
| 1956 | 345 | #410 |
| 1957 | 384 | #394 |
| 1958 | 362 | #411 |
| 1959 | 449 | #372 |
| 1960 | 427 | #382 |
| 1961 | 549 | #334 |
| 1962 | 574 | #328 |
| 1963 | 582 | #328 |
| 1964 | 617 | #311 |
| 1965 | 621 | #301 |
| 1966 | 548 | #317 |
| 1967 | 644 | #285 |
| 1968 | 735 | #270 |
| 1969 | 865 | #247 |
| 1970 | 1,245 | #205 |
| 1971 | 1,574 | #173 |
| 1972 | 1,921 | #139 |
| 1973 | 1,981 | #130 |
| 1974 | 2,232 | #117 |
| 1975 | 2,431 | #106 |
| 1976 | 3,303 | #81 |
| 1977 | 3,346 | #87 |
| 1978 | 3,126 | #90 |
| 1979 | 3,236 | #90 |
| 1980 | 3,494 | #85 |
| 1981 | 3,373 | #87 |
| 1982 | 3,363 | #88 |
| 1983 | 3,269 | #89 |
| 1984 | 3,325 | #87 |
| 1985 | 3,215 | #92 |
| 1986 | 3,046 | #95 |
| 1987 | 3,079 | #98 |
| 1988 | 3,120 | #102 |
| 1989 | 3,037 | #110 |
| 1990 | 3,699 | #100 |
| 1991 | 4,413 | #82 |
| 1992 | 4,336 | #86 |
| 1993 | 4,374 | #86 |
| 1994 | 5,538 | #68 |
| 1995 | 5,713 | #65 |
| 1996 | 5,899 | #61 |
| 1997 | 6,404 | #57 |
| 1998 | 7,068 | #54 |
| 1999 | 7,369 | #53 |
| 2000 | 8,681 | #44 |
| 2001 | 10,917 | #38 |
| 2002 | 12,059 | #32 |
| 2003 | 12,521 | #29 |
| 2004 | 11,563 | #32 |
| 2005 | 12,759 | #28 |
| 2006 | 12,543 | #28 |
| 2007 | 12,911 | #28 |
| 2008 | 13,040 | #24 |
| 2009 | 12,833 | #22 |
| 2010 | 12,886 | #21 |
| 2011 | 12,361 | #24 |
| 2012 | 11,577 | #24 |
| 2013 | 11,244 | #24 |
| 2014 | 10,953 | #24 |
| 2015 | 10,909 | #22 |
| 2016 | 10,278 | #25 |
| 2017 | 9,176 | #31 |
| 2018 | 8,435 | #35 |
| 2019 | 7,765 | #37 |
| 2020 | 7,165 | #38 |
| 2021 | 7,293 | #38 |
| 2022 | 7,247 | #36 |
| 2023 | 6,777 | #38 |
| 2024 | 6,379 | #43 |
