How Many People Are Named Gabriela?

84,832

people named Gabriela are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 4,028 people in the US has this name

Based on 86,553 babies named Gabriela in Social Security records from 1903 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#625

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#327

See the top 100

Peak Year

2003

3,369 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bulgarian
Pronunciation: gab-RYE-la (Polish), ga-BRYE-la (Spanish), ga-bree-E-la (German)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of GABRIEL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.6%
Male
0.4%

Almost all of the babies given the name Gabriela (99.6%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Gabriela alive today is about 24 years old, and 69% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 31 in 2025.

Under 30 58,353
68.8%
30 to 59 25,819
30.4%
60 and over 661
0.8%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Gabriela first appears in the records in 1903 and was given most often in 2003, to 3,369 babies. In 2025, 961 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1903 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Gabriela has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #102, in 2003. In 2025 it ranked #317.

Girls
Rank in 2025#317
Best rank#102 (2003)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#118 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Gabriela alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Gabriela were born in California than in any other state: about 25,281 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Gabriela was given 2.1 times as often in California, 1.7 times in Texas and 1.6 times in District of Columbia.

California 25,281
Texas 14,194
Florida 6,993
New York 5,509
Illinois 4,504
New Jersey 2,681
Arizona 2,402
Virginia 1,485
Georgia 1,471
North Carolina 1,361
Massachusetts 1,316
Washington 1,198
Maryland 1,152
Colorado 1,022
Pennsylvania 972
Michigan 854
Nevada 794
Connecticut 793
Oregon 708
Ohio 692
Indiana 635
New Mexico 616
Wisconsin 582
Tennessee 550
Utah 503
Minnesota 477
Kansas 422
Oklahoma 417
Missouri 374
Louisiana 354
District of Columbia 342
South Carolina 331
Alabama 288
Nebraska 269
Iowa 249
Arkansas 235
Kentucky 207
Idaho 201
Rhode Island 157
Delaware 82
Mississippi 71
Hawaii 23
Maine 10
New Hampshire 7
West Virginia 5
Wyoming 5

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