girls:
137.9k births since 1890
#289 (95th percentile)
boys:
780 births since 1973
#3807 (17th percentile)
overall:
138.7k births since 1890
#536 (93rd percentile)
The name Gabrielle is the #536 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 138,655 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 93.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #289 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 137,875 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #3,807 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 780 births since 1973.
Gabrielle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Gabrielle is available in 128 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (128 years for girls and 47 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 Gabrielle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gabrielle reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 94.9% percentile (ranked #46) with 3,149 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3,199 births per million (ranked 94.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gabrielle ranks #483 for girls (49.0% percentile) with 312 births per million, which is 9.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gabrielle reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #812) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gabrielle".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Gabrielle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Gabrielle is pronounced as GAY-bree-EHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAY-bree-ehl, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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