# Gabriela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gabriela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 86,553 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 371 / 86,182 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,381, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,912 | 165 |
| 2012 | 1,551 | 200 |
| 2013 | 1,450 | 221 |
| 2014 | 1,414 | 232 |
| 2015 | 1,260 | 256 |
| 2016 | 1,249 | 253 |
| 2017 | 1,159 | 281 |
| 2018 | 1,003 | 325 |
| 2019 | 954 | 336 |
| 2020 | 961 | 322 |
| 2021 | 927 | 344 |
| 2022 | 955 | 339 |
| 2023 | 1,050 | 296 |
| 2024 | 1,063 | 298 |
| 2025 | 961 | 317 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 26 | 2,738 |
| 1994 | 26 | 2,796 |
| 1995 | 9 | 6,080 |
| 1996 | 15 | 4,251 |
| 1997 | 7 | 7,552 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,150 |
| 1999 | 10 | 6,193 |
| 2000 | 8 | 7,688 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,131 |
| 2002 | 8 | 7,891 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8,975 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,391 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9,444 |
| 2006 | 11 | 7,088 |
| 2007 | 12 | 6,782 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 204 | 247 |
| 2012 | 201 | 251 |
| 2013 | 179 | 265 |
| 2014 | 167 | 285 |
| 2015 | 187 | 263 |
| 2016 | 205 | 246 |
| 2017 | 177 | 277 |
| 2018 | 186 | 265 |
| 2019 | 185 | 260 |
| 2020 | 162 | 288 |
| 2021 | 130 | 360 |
| 2022 | 121 | 355 |
| 2023 | 96 | 425 |
| 2024 | 102 | 418 |
| 2025 | 81 | 490 |

## In other languages

- Czech: Gabriela
- French: Gabrielle
- German: Gabriele
- Italian: Gabriella
- Polish: Gabriela
- Romanian: Gabriela
- Spanish: Gabriela

## People named Gabriela

- Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
- Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
- Gabriela Gunčíková, Czech singer
- Gabriela Soukalová, Czech biathlete
- Gabriela Dabrowski, Canadian tennis player
- Gabriela Guimarães, Brazilian volleyball player
- Gabriela Duarte, actress
- Gabriela Silang, Filipina insurgent leader
- Archduchess Gabriela of Austria, Austrian Imperial and Royal
- Gabriela Potorac, former artistic gymnast
- Monique Gabriela Curnen, American actress
- Gabriela González, Argentinian physicist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.