Gabriele
Masculine · “God is my strength”
Gabriele is given to both — 890 boys and 2,078 girls since 1880. See Gabriele as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Gabriele is one spelling doing two different jobs. In Italy it is a man's name, said in four syllables with the weight on the third. In Germany it is a woman's name, the feminine of Gabriel. Both are correct, neither is a variant of the other, and an American birth certificate cannot tell them apart. This spelling goes mostly to boys here, but not only.
How old is the name Gabriele?
Gabriele first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Gabriele alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 900 people named Gabriele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gabriele most popular?
Gabriele peaked in 2001, reaching #2797 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 1,742 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Gavriel to Gabriele
The story of Gabriele
Gabriel traveled as an angel rather than as a man, which is unusual and explains its spread: every language that received the scriptures received the name, and each one shaped the ending to its own grammar. Italian added the -e that marks a great many men's names there — Michele, Raffaele, Daniele, Gabriele — so the spelling is straightforwardly masculine in Italian and always has been. German built its women's names on Latin models instead, giving Gabriele and Gabriela as feminines. The two conventions had no reason to meet until immigration put them in the same filing system. In the United States both arrive, from different families, spelled identically.
Meaning
God is my strength
Hebrew Gavriel joins gever, a strong man, with El, God. The usual reading is God is my strength, and the alternative, man of God, comes from the same two words in the other order — a difference of emphasis rather than of substance. Gabriel is one of the two angels named in the Hebrew Bible and the one who speaks in both the Gospel of Luke and the Quran, which is why the name is at home in three religious traditions and every language they reach.
How the name formed
- Gavriel
- Gabriel
- Gabriele
Related forms: גַּבְרִיאֵל · Gabriele · Gabriele · Gabriel · Jibril · Gavriil
Pronouncing Gabriele
gah-bree-EH-leh
Italian gives four syllables with the stress on the third and the final e fully sounded: gah-bree-EH-leh. German says gah-bree-EH-luh, ending in a softer vowel. English readers usually produce GAY-bree-ell, treating it as Gabriel with a stray letter — which is the one saying that belongs to neither tradition.
Nicknames for Gabriele
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
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 200739 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2797reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- +10.0%22 in 2025, from 20
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.
Gabriele in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- גַּבְרִיאֵל in Hebrew — transliteration
- Gabriele in Italian — same name
- Gabriele in German — related form
- Gabriel in Spanish — same name
- Jibril in Arabic — same name
- Gavriil in Russian — same name
Gabrieles among us
people named Gabriele are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Gabriele
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Gabriele
- #4539
- Gabriele on the 2025 chart
- #894
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Gabriele went to 22 boys in 2025, but Gabrielle is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 34, which makes it the 894th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,645 places above the chart.
- Gabriele22
- Gabrielle12
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 77,640 for Gabriele itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Thorne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gabriele's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Thorne climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Thorne's path sketches the road Gabriele is walking now.
Gabriele sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Gabriele beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gabriele in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a working name in Italian, German, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic without translation.
- Gabe and Gabi are both waiting inside it, and either one works in any accent.
- The angel behind it is recognized in Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike, which very few names manage.
- In America the final e will be read as a feminine ending, because English has no other model for it; a boy carrying this spelling will be corrected toward Gabriel constantly.
- The name is a man's in Italy and a woman's in Germany, so the same spelling reads differently depending on who is looking at it.
- It goes mostly to boys in the United States but a real minority to girls, and a girl named Gabriele will find that Gabriella and Gabrielle are what people write instead.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gabrieles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Gabriele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Gabriele?
- Gabriele is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 34 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Gabrielle.
- How popular is the name Gabriele in 2025?
- Gabriele ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gabriele?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Gabriele — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gabriele with classmates?
- Gabriele will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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