Gabriella
Feminine · “God is my strength”
Gabriella is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 137,636 girls against 68 boys since 1880.
Gabriella is the archangel's name given an Italian ending — Gabriel, the messenger of the Book of Daniel and of the Gospel of Luke, softened into four syllables that rise and fall in the middle. Italian and Hungarian have used it for centuries; English-speaking families took it up much more recently and shortened it, as English does, to something one syllable long. It is a name that works in full dress and in slippers.
How old is the name Gabriella?
Gabriella first appears in US birth records in 1890 — 135 years ago. The typical Gabriella alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 136,000 people named Gabriella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gabriella most popular?
Gabriella peaked in 2009, reaching #33 nationally. Today it ranks #105, 72 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
From Gavri'el to Gabriella
The story of Gabriella
The root is Hebrew: Gavri'el, the angel who interprets visions in the Book of Daniel, brings the annunciation in the Gospel of Luke, and is known as Jibril in Islamic tradition. Through Greek and Latin scripture the name reached every corner of Christian Europe as Gabriel, and Romance languages made feminine forms from it — Gabriella in Italian, Gabrielle in French, Gabriela in Spanish, Portuguese and Polish. Hungarian adopted the double-l spelling too, where Gabriella has long been a standard given name. English speakers came to it late, borrowing the Italian form rather than building their own, which is why the -ella ending still sounds a little continental in an American classroom.
Meaning
God is my strength
From the Hebrew Gavri'el, built from a root meaning strong man or hero plus El, God — rendered in English as "God is my strength" or "man of God". The feminine -a ending is Italian.
How the name formed
- Gavri'el
- Gabriel
- Gabriella
Related forms: Gabriella · Gabriella · Gabriela · Gabrielle · Gabriela · Gavriella
Pronouncing Gabriella
gab-ree-EL-uh
Four syllables with the stress on EL. Italian and Spanish speakers give the r a lighter tap; in English it is usually smoothed to gab-ree-EL-uh or, quickly, gab-BREL-uh.
Nicknames for Gabriella
High
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
- 1890
- Most girls named
- 20106,185 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #33reached in 2009
- Change vs 2023
- −8.9%2,545 in 2025, from 2,795
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.
Gabriella in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gabriella in Italian — same name
- Gabriella in Hungarian — same name
- Gabriela in Spanish — spelling variant
- Gabrielle in French — related form
- Gabriela in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Gavriella in Hebrew — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, New York. International figures from Statistics Canada. Sources
Gabriellas among us
people named Gabriella are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 632 born in 2025 was named Gabriella
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Gabriella
- #105
- Gabriella on the 2025 chart
- #80
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Gabriella went to 2,545 girls in 2025, but Gabriela is the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 3,516, which makes it the 80th most-given girls’ name of the year — 25 places above the chart.
- Gabriella2,545
- Gabriela961
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 457 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 632 for Gabriella 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 Bonnie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gabriella's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bonnie climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bonnie's path sketches the road Gabriella is walking now.
Gabriella is coming down from a big peak (#33 in 2009). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Gabriella is headed
Gabriella should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Gabriella beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gabriella in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Hungarian with little or no adjustment — a name that travels without translation.
- An unusually deep bench of short forms: Gabby, Gabi, Ella, Brie, Gia. The child can pick a register rather than inherit one.
- A documented line running back to Hebrew scripture, with the masculine Gabriel in continuous use for well over a thousand years.
- Formal on paper and casual in the mouth, which covers both a name badge and a playground.
- Gabriella and Gabriela are both standard, and Gabrielle is right beside them. Expect a lifetime of confirming how many l's — and of being handed the wrong one on coffee cups and class lists.
- In English, "gabby" is an everyday word for talkative, and the most obvious nickname lands right on it. Worth knowing before it arrives from a classmate rather than from you.
- Four syllables is a lot next to a short surname or a long one; saying the whole thing aloud a few times tells you more than reading it will.
- It rose fast in American use and is easing back from that high, so it reads as neither brand-new nor old-fashioned — a middle position some parents like and others find hard to place.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gabriellas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 136,000 people named Gabriella are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Gabriella?
- Gabriella is the most-used spelling in US records — 2,545 of the 3,516 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Gabriela.
- How popular is the name Gabriella in 2025?
- Gabriella ranks #105 among US girl names in 2025, with 2,545 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gabriella?
- About 1 in every 632 US girls born in 2025 was named Gabriella — 2,545 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gabriella with classmates?
- Gabriella will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Gabriella
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