Meaning not yet researched.
Gabe: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #584 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #584 in 1880; #4,591 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gabe in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,591 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #584.
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Gabe: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #584 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 126 (2005).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Gabe, making it the 4,591st most common boys’ name of the year, up 18 places from #4,609 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 22 boys named Gabe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #584, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 126, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,732 in 2015 and #2,488 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gabe in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 11 babies. In all, 4,110 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,102 babies named Gabe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 435 US boys were named Gabe; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gabe in the open dataset we use.
Gabe is listed as a nickname for Gabriel.
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 | — | — | 22 | #4,591 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,609 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,969 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,362 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,833 |
| 2020 | — | — | 49 | #2,597 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,498 |
| 2018 | — | — | 56 | #2,362 |
| 2017 | — | — | 58 | #2,283 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,393 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,732 |
| 2014 | — | — | 84 | #1,784 |
| 2013 | — | — | 70 | #1,978 |
| 2012 | — | — | 103 | #1,548 |
| 2011 | — | — | 125 | #1,353 |
| 2010 | — | — | 91 | #1,690 |
| 2009 | — | — | 109 | #1,522 |
| 2008 | — | — | 112 | #1,470 |
| 2007 | — | — | 123 | #1,361 |
| 2006 | — | — | 118 | #1,370 |
| 2005 | — | — | 126 | #1,254 |
| 2004 | — | — | 120 | #1,258 |
| 2003 | — | — | 113 | #1,267 |
| 2002 | — | — | 90 | #1,434 |
| 2001 | — | — | 106 | #1,259 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,452 |
| 1999 | — | — | 66 | #1,629 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,909 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,108 |
| 1996 | — | — | 31 | #2,499 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,064 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,646 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,891 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,660 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,228 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,666 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,359 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,120 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,235 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,265 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,005 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,609 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,746 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,784 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,778 |
| 1979 | — | — | 35 | #1,644 |
| 1978 | — | — | 39 | #1,489 |
| 1977 | — | — | 58 | #1,147 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,170 |
| 1975 | — | — | 56 | #1,129 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,257 |
| 1973 | — | — | 45 | #1,234 |
| 1972 | — | — | 62 | #1,026 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,243 |
| 1970 | — | — | 27 | #1,670 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,537 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,236 |
| 1967 | — | — | 20 | #1,778 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,078 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,741 |
| 1964 | — | — | 30 | #1,446 |
| 1963 | — | — | 35 | #1,329 |
| 1962 | — | — | 24 | #1,637 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,475 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,710 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,477 |
| 1958 | — | — | 23 | #1,656 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,691 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,866 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,071 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,729 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,418 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #2,002 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,488 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,154 |
| 1948 | — | — | 16 | #1,901 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,286 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,774 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,304 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,916 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,321 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,078 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,396 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,116 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,100 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,636 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,786 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,510 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,600 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,965 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,030 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,036 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,941 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,112 |
| 1929 | — | — | 18 | #1,822 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,198 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,580 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,239 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,241 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,526 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,269 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,294 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,259 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,187 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,852 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,928 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,313 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #2,006 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,718 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,995 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,123 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,321 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,680 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,277 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,250 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,051 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #954 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,273 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,059 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,158 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #822 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #813 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #724 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #890 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #725 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #691 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #915 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #776 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #981 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #992 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,028 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #833 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #723 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #921 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #584 |
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).