In 2025, 459 US girls were named Gabrielle, making it the 633rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #576 in 2024. That is 67 fewer than the 526 girls named Gabrielle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #46, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,201, in 1998. For comparison, it was #205 in 2015 and #1,773 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gabrielle in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 139,579 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 50,049 babies named Gabrielle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,395 US girls were named Gabrielle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,424. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,502 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gabrielle ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #191 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gabriella (137,704 babies since 1880), Gabriela (86,553 babies since 1880), Brielle (49,835 babies since 1880) and Gabriele (2,968 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gaby, Gabryelle and Gabi are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ella and Gabby.