Gabriela

Where Gabriela comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Gabriela.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Gabriela through the years
  1. 1889
    Gabriela Mistral born
    Chilean poet, diplomat and educator
  2. 1903
    First appearance
    #1,792 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1970
    Gabriela Sabatini born
    Argentine tennis player
  4. 2003
    Peak, #102
    3,362 babies named Gabriela, the most in any year.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #200.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a latinate feminine form of Gabriel.
Namesakes
  • Gabriela Mistral · Chilean poet, diplomat and educator, 1889–1957
  • Gabriela Sabatini · Argentine tennis player, born 1970
  • Gabriela Zapolska · Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress, 1857–1921
  • Gabriela Szabo · Romanian athletics (sport) competitor, born 1975
  • Gabriela Gunčíková · Czech singer, born 1993

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.