Gabrielle
Masculine · “God is my strength”
Gabrielle is given to girls far more often — 138,782 girls against 797 boys since 1880. See Gabrielle as a girl name
The -elle at the end of Gabrielle is a French feminine ending, and a male row for the name is mostly a question about who knows that. In francophone communities the distinction is obvious; elsewhere it is one extra letter on a name everyone recognizes.
How old is the name Gabrielle?
Gabrielle first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Gabrielle alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Gabrielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gabrielle most popular?
Gabrielle peaked in 1991, reaching #2406 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 4,397 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Gavriel to Gabrielle
The story of Gabrielle
French makes feminines of men's names with -elle and -ette, and the convention is completely transparent to anyone who reads French; Gabriel and Gabrielle, Daniel and Danielle, Michel and Michelle. In the United States that convention is widely known but not universally, and the doubled letters at the end of a long name are exactly the sort of detail that gets lost between a hospital form and a database. A small male row for Gabrielle is what results, and it holds three things at once: transcription slips, families honoring a relative regardless of sex, and Haitian and West African francophone households where the whole family of names is in heavy use. Its best year on the male side is 1991.
Meaning
God is my strength
Hebrew Gavriel, from gever or gavri, man or strength, and El, God. Gabrielle is the French feminine, formed with the -elle suffix; Gabriel is the masculine in French as in English. The meaning is identical in both, and the ending marks grammatical gender rather than sense.
How the name formed
- Gavriel
- Gabriel
- Gabrielle
Related forms: Gabriel · Gabriella · Gabriela · Gavriel
Pronouncing Gabrielle
gab-ree-EL
Three syllables with the stress at the end. The final e is silent in French, so Gabriel and Gabrielle are identical aloud; only the spelling distinguishes them.
Nicknames for Gabrielle
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 200440 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2406reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +140.0%12 in 2025, from 5
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.
Gabrielle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gabriel in French — related form
- Gabriella in Italian — same name
- Gabriela in Spanish — same name
- Gavriel in Hebrew — transliteration
Gabrielles among us
people named Gabrielle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Gabrielle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Gabrielle
- #6803
- Gabrielle on the 2025 chart
- #894
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Gabrielle went to 12 boys in 2025, but Gabriele 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 — 5,909 places above the chart.
- Gabriele22
- Gabrielle12
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 142,340 for Gabrielle 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 Aristotle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gabrielle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aristotle climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aristotle's path sketches the road Gabrielle is walking now.
Gabrielle 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
Gabrielle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gabrielle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Hebrew meaning shared by a figure in all three Abrahamic scriptures.
- Gabe and Gabi are both immediately available.
- Identical in sound to the far more common masculine form.
- This spelling is the French feminine and is read as a woman's name.
- Gabriel is the masculine spelling and will be written instead.
- The two are indistinguishable in speech, which cuts both ways.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gabrielles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Gabrielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Gabrielle?
- Gabrielle is one of 2 recorded spellings. Gabriele is the more common one — 22 births in 2025 against 12 for Gabrielle.
- How popular is the name Gabrielle in 2025?
- Gabrielle ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gabrielle?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Gabrielle — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gabrielle with classmates?
- Gabrielle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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