Gaberiel
Masculine · “God is my strength”
Gaberiel is Gabriel written with an extra e, a spelling that records the way many people actually say the name. It keeps the name of the archangel and gains an extra beat in the middle.
How old is the name Gaberiel?
Gaberiel first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Gaberiel alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Gaberiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gaberiel most popular?
Gaberiel peaked in 2010, reaching #2556 nationally. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Gavri'el to Gaberiel
The story of Gaberiel
Gabriel is the messenger angel of the Bible and the Qur'an, and his name reached mathematics too. When Evangelista Torricelli showed that a horn-shaped solid could hold a finite amount of paint while its surface was infinite, too large ever to be painted, the shape came to be called Gabriel's horn. The spelling Gaberiel records a common habit of speech: English speakers often slip a small vowel between a b and an r, as in the way some say athlete as athalete, and this spelling writes that vowel down.
Meaning
God is my strength
From Hebrew Gavri'el, God is my strength or my strong man is God. Gaberiel is a modern American spelling.
How the name formed
- Gavri'el
- Gabriel
- Gaberiel
Related forms: Gavriel · Jibril · Gabriele · Gabriel · Gavriil
Pronouncing Gaberiel
GAY-bur-ee-el
Most families say it like Gabriel, GAY-bree-el. The spelling suggests a fourth syllable, GAY-bur-ee-el, and some families use it.
Nicknames for Gaberiel
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 201048 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2556reached in 2010
- Change vs 2019
- −25.0%6 in 2022, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Gaberiel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gavriel in Hebrew — same name
- Jibril in Arabic — same name
- Gabriele in Italian — same name
- Gabriel in Spanish — same name
- Gavriil in Russian — transliteration
Gaberiels among us
people named Gaberiel are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Gaberiel sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It carries one of the best-known names in three religions.
- Gabe is a ready short form.
- It is rare as a spelling.
- People will correct it to Gabriel, and he will need to insist on the extra e.
- The spelling may be read as a typo on forms.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gaberiels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Gaberiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Gaberiel in 2025?
- Gaberiel is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Gaberiel with classmates?
- Gaberiel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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