Gaby
- #3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births
- Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
- Given to girls 98.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 70 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,437since 1920
Gaby over time
Rank among girls' names. Gaby has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,726 | 65 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,731 | 61 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Gaby! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gaby is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Carolina#1,437 · 1 in 9,297
- Florida#1,887 · 1 in 14,460
Best ever in a state: #798 in Alabama, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #1,437 | 5 | 1 in 9,297 |
| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| California | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| Georgia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gaby
- 153 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #3,975)
- 573 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #3,975)
- 270 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,975)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2007 at #2,616 (70 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,348 girls born in 2010 were named Gaby (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,616 in 2007, was only 1 in 27,466 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.1% of all girls named Gaby (447) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,847 (1938) | #3,847 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 28 | #4,520 (1958) | #5,726 |
| 1960s | 50 | #3,244 (1964) | #3,788 |
| 1970s | 23 | #6,558 (1972) | #7,922 |
| 1980s | 24 | #8,037 (1989) | #10,419 |
| 1990s | 228 | #2,935 (1994) | #5,442 |
| 2000s | 447 | #2,616 (2007) | #3,502 |
| 2010s | 407 | #2,726 (2010) | #3,893 |
| 2020s | 219 | #3,703 (2022) | #3,995 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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