Gaby
Feminine · “God is my strength”
Gaby is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,437 girls against 26 boys since 1880.
Gaby is a short form of Gabrielle, and the Hebrew behind it is a compound about strength — God is my strength, or the strong man of God.
How old is the name Gaby?
Gaby first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Gaby alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,400 people named Gaby are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gaby most popular?
Gaby peaked in 2007, reaching #2616 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 1,359 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Gavri'el to Gaby
The story of Gaby
Gabriel appears in Daniel explaining visions and in Luke announcing births, and in Islamic tradition as Jibril, who brings the revelation. French made Gabrielle from him and clipped it to Gaby, which is used across French, German, Spanish and Dutch as a household form and increasingly as a name in its own right. It appears in American records for both sexes.
Meaning
God is my strength
From Hebrew gever, a strong man, and el, God; Gabriel is the archangel who announces things in both Daniel and Luke, and the women's form Gabrielle is French.
How the name formed
- Gavri'el
- Gabrielle
- Gaby
Related forms: Gaby · Gabi · Gabrielle
Pronouncing Gaby
GAB-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. French and Spanish give gah-BEE.
Nicknames for Gaby
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
- 1920
- Most girls named
- 200770 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2616reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −7.7%36 in 2025, from 39
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.
Gaby in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gaby in French — same name
- Gabi in Spanish — spelling variant
- Gabrielle in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Gabys among us
people named Gaby are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Gaby
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Gaby
- #3975
- Gaby on the 2025 chart
- #857
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Gaby went to 36 girls in 2025, but Gabby, Gabi and Gabbi are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 103, which makes it the 857th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,118 places above the chart.
- Gabby49
- Gaby36
- Gabi12
- Gabbi6
About 1 girl in 15,605 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Gaby 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 Sian test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gaby's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sian climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sian's path sketches the road Gaby is walking now.
Gaby 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
Where Gaby is headed
Gaby should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Gaby beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gaby in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Warm and immediately friendly, and understood in several languages.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
- It is used for both sexes in French, so forms may guess wrong.
- The Gab clip is an English word about talking too much.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gabys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Gaby are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Gaby?
- Gaby is one of 4 recorded spellings. Gabby is the more common one — 49 births in 2025 against 36 for Gaby.
- How popular is the name Gaby in 2025?
- Gaby ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gaby?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Gaby — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gaby with classmates?
- Gaby will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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