Meaning not yet researched.
Gabby: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,612 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,612 in 2022; #3,223 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gabby in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,223 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,612.
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Gabby: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,612 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 67 (2023).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Gabby, making it the 3,223rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 164 places from #3,059 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 53 girls named Gabby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,612, reached in 2022. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,270 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gabby in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 1,262 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 486 babies named Gabby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 527 US girls were named Gabby; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Gabbie, Gabbi and Gabie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gabbie (232), Gabbi (119), Gabie (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gabby in the open dataset we use.
Gabby is listed as a nickname for Gabriel, Gabriella, Gabrielle.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,966 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,729 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,053 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,182 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,652 | 5 | #11,130 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,205 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,615 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,244 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,558 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,858 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,009 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,761 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,856 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,625 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,866 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,047 | 5 | #8,326 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,379 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,895 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,096 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,887 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).