How rare is the name Gabrielle?

118,795 people in the United States have the first name Gabrielle, about 1 in 2,542. It ranks #476 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GABRIELLE

#476

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
118,795
About
1 in 2,542
This common or more
57.5%
Who bears it

Of the 118,795 people named Gabrielle, 57.1% reported their origin as White, 18.8% as Black and 14% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Gabrielle peaked in 1998, when 6,221 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18902025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
6,221
In 2025*
471 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 139,579 babies have been given the name since 1890. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Gabrielle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #147. The largest share of babies named Gabrielle, 52.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1890s#2,64229
1900s#2,30870
1910s#2,163283
1920s#2,450344
1930s#2,917223
1940s#2,510346
1950s#1,902790
1960s#1,1762,241
1970s#9043,798
1980s#44411,624
1990s#14750,049
2000s#15847,296
2010s#38318,706
2020s#9883,780
Before 19010%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.4%
Silent Generation 1928–450.4%
Baby boom 1946–641.4%
Generation X 1965–804%
Millennials 1981–9630.6%
Generation Z 1997–1252.9%
2013 and later10.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Gabrielle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gabrielle has been most common in Delaware (2×), Louisiana (1.8×), and Maryland (1.7×), and least common in South Dakota (0.49×).

135,869 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Gabrielle ranks #50,251 of 156,621, with 450 people. See Gabrielle as a last name

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