girls:
84.1k births since 1903
#419 (93rd percentile)
boys:
371 births since 1974
#4215 (8th percentile)
overall:
84.5k births since 1903
#764 (90th percentile)
The name Gabriela is the #764 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84,501 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 90.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #419 (92.7% percentile) for all time with 84,130 births since 1903. For boys, it ranks #4,215 (8.0% percentile) for all time with 371 births since 1974.
Gabriela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Gabriela is available in 108 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023 (108 years for girls and 31 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 Gabriela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gabriela reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #101) with 1,675 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 1,675 births per million (ranked 89.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gabriela ranks #282 for girls (70.3% percentile) with 595 births per million, which is 35.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gabriela reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #748) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gabriela".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Gabriela", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Gabriella" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Gabriella..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Gabriela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.9% confident that Gabriela is pronounced as GA-bree-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ga-bree-EH-luh, at 25.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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