Gaby is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Gabrielle, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Gaby: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,622 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,622 in 2007; #4,013 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gaby in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,013 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,622.
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Gaby: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,622 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 70 (2007).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Gaby, making it the 4,013th most common girls’ name of the year, down 164 places from #3,849 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 39 girls named Gaby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,622, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #3,725 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gaby in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 1,463 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 452 babies named Gaby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 348 US girls were named Gaby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gabrielle (139,579 babies since 1880) and Gabby (1,262 babies since 1880).
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 French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Gaby in the open dataset we use.
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 | 36 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,911 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,816 | 5 | #12,669 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,738 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,462 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,846 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,976 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,950 | 5 | #9,292 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,061 | 5 | #9,206 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,343 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,832 | 6 | #7,584 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,867 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,257 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,433 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,906 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,033 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,764 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,202 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,773 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,357 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,570 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,390 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,267 | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,149 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,264 | — | — |
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).