Gabriella

109,553 people in America carry this name — ranked #514 of 923.

A name being given more often than it was a generation ago.

Say it gahb ree EH lah

4 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

G AA2 B R IY0 EH1 L AA2 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 109,553 2020 Census
  • Rank #514 Common
  • Per 100,000 36.3 about 1 in 3,025 people
  • As a surname 145 ranked #124,450 the other way round

Where Gabriella comes from and what it means

Hebrew in origin, reading literally as “hero of God”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

Gabriella name popularity by year

123,683 babies were given this name since 1890. The busiest year was 2010, with 6,184 of them.

90 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 00 10s 20

Most people carrying it were born in the 2010s.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names for Gabriella

Three syllables already, so a short middle name keeps the whole from running long.

Better avoided

  • Gabriella Ashley — runs together
  • Gabriella Amy — runs together
  • Gabriella Anna — runs together

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

On the way up

Gabriella is given more often now than it was a generation ago. Most names move the other way.

Boys or girls: who is called Gabriella?

0.2% men
109,373 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Who carries it today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 47.5%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 5.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 39.6%
  • Two or more races — 5.2%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 1.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.5%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

How to spell Gabriella

Gabriella is how 48% of them spell it — 228,348 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Where in America Gabriella is thickest on the ground

In Florida the name is given 2.0 times as often as it is across the country.

  • Florida ×2.0
  • New Jersey ×1.9
  • Connecticut ×1.9
  • Rhode Island ×1.7
  • New York ×1.6

Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.

Same syllables and stress as Gabriella

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 4 syllables, stress on the third

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Hebrew origin