In 2025, 2,545 US girls were named Gabriella, making it the 105th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #106 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 2,504 girls named Gabriella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #33, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,185. For comparison, it was #54 in 2015 and #3,508 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gabriella in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 137,704 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 48,145 babies named Gabriella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 32,464 US girls were named Gabriella; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 632 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gabriella ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #39 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 12 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Gabrielle (139,579 babies since 1880), Gabriela (86,553 babies since 1880), Gabriele (2,968 babies since 1880) and Gabriell (1,704 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gabryella, Gabbriella and Gabryela are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ella and Gabby.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Hungarian and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.