Gabriel

Where Gabriel comes from

From Latin Gabriel, from Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ (Gabrīḗl), from Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾḗl, “God is my strong man”), from גֶּבֶר (géver, “strong man, hero”) and אֵל (ʾēl, “God, deity”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-. Doublet of Jibril.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gabriel
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
Gabriel through the years
  1. 1845
    Gabriel Lippmann born
    Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #465 among boys, with 15 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1927
    Gabriel García Márquez born
    Colombian writer and Nobel laureate
  4. 2010
    Peak, #21
    12,891 babies named Gabriel, its best rank.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #43.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew].
  • An archangel associated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
Namesakes
  • Gabriel García Márquez · Colombian writer and Nobel laureate, 1927–2014
  • Gabriel Lippmann · Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French, 1845–1921
  • Gabriel Boric · president of Chile from 2022 to 2026, born 1986
  • Gabriel Batistuta · Argentine association football player, born 1969
  • Gabriel Fauré · French composer, organist, pianist and teacher, 1845–1924

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.