girls:
1.1k births since 1961
#4576 (20th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1987
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1961
#6584 (15th percentile)
The name Gabby is the #6,584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,156 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 14.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,576 (19.9% percentile) for all time with 1,140 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1987.
Gabby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Gabby is available in 39 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (38 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gabby has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gabby reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #885) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 38 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gabby is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #885 (6.6% percentile) with 38 births per million.
For boys, Gabby reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gabby".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Gabby", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 5 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Gaby" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Gaby..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Gabby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Gabby is pronounced as GA-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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