girls:
6.8k births since 1910
#1991 (65th percentile)
boys:
382.6k births since 1880
#89 (98th percentile)
overall:
389.4k births since 1880
#180 (98th percentile)
The name Gabriel is the #180 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 389,438 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #89 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 382,625 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,991 (65.2% percentile) for all time with 6,813 births since 1910.
Gabriel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1910 for girls).
The name Gabriel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gabriel reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 97.7% percentile (ranked #21) with 6,271 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 6,271 births per million (ranked 97.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gabriel ranks #37 for boys (96.0% percentile) with 3,683 births per million, which is 58.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gabriel reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 31.5% percentile (ranked #615) with 147 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 147 births per million (ranked 31.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gabriel ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gabriel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Gabriel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.7% confident that Gabriel is pronounced as GAY-bree-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-bree-uhl, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like G EY1 B R IY0 AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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