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Meaning, origin and pronunciation, with published usage by place and year.
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Man of God, in the historical Hebrew lexicon interpretation.
Credit: Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew lexicon, Gabriel entry, displayed by Bible Hub. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names. The lexicon supplies man of El; the separate licensed strength gloss is not silently treated as the same literal translation.
Hebrew ancestry, transmitted through Greek and Latin
The English entry and its etymology tree trace the name through Ancient Greek and Latin to Biblical Hebrew. A literal meaning requires a separate lexical review.
/ˈɡeɪ.bɹi.əl/
English reading with primary stress on GAY.
Recorded English reading, as published. Accents and preferred pronunciations can differ.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
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| Canada | 2018 | Girls | 6 | 2892 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 744 · preliminary | 22 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2022 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 7413 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Boys | 4,625 (rounded to 5) | 1 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2021 | Girls | 3 | 5581 | Historical source: not all years independently cross-checked. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 666 | 80 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 20 | 114 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2025 | Boys | 48 | 104 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 49 | 112 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Girls | 10 | 9457 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 6,569 | 37 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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Credit: Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew lexicon, Gabriel entry, displayed by Bible Hub. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names. The lexicon supplies man of El; the separate licensed strength gloss is not silently treated as the same literal translation.
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GfdS distinguishes gabar and geber element analyses. The existing man-of-God lexicon interpretation remains intact; this note records another interpretation rather than silently replacing it. Credit: Frauke Rüdebusch / Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose passages, images or audio reproduced.
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The exact English Gabe entry explicitly records this diminutive of Gabriel. It can also be used independently; spelling counts remain separate. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names. No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The English entry and its etymology tree trace the name through Ancient Greek and Latin to Biblical Hebrew. A literal meaning requires a separate lexical review.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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English reading with primary stress on GAY.
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The source lists this Hungarian form. The accent is preserved and statistics remain separate. Credit: Frauke Rüdebusch / Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose passages, images or audio reproduced.
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Related English forms with a shared linguistic source; not interchangeable spellings or a nickname claim. Popularity counts remain separate.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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GfdS records this Italian masculine form. It is distinct from feminine uses in other languages; pronunciation is not transferred. Credit: Frauke Rüdebusch / Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose passages, images or audio reproduced.
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Related English forms with a shared linguistic source; not interchangeable spellings or a nickname claim. Popularity counts remain separate.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Related English forms with a shared linguistic source; not interchangeable spellings or a nickname claim. Popularity counts remain separate.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The English etymology explicitly identifies Jibril as a doublet. This records a historical name relationship without treating the two spellings as interchangeable in pronunciation or birth statistics. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, Gabriel entry. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Gabriel&oldid=93426090. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the explicitly documented relationship and separated it from pronunciation, nicknames and spelling variants; no source audio or images reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Supporting name-family or literal-root evidence for the stated tradition. Unrelated name histories and word senses remain separate.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The linguistic society records distinct Hebrew interpretations and Italian and Hungarian name forms. Existing feminine relationships and English reading are preserved. Credit: Frauke Rüdebusch / Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose passages, images or audio reproduced.
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Attribution: Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
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Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
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Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
