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Gabino vs Gabriela

American parents have registered 86,553 Gabrielas since 1880, against 2,573 Gabinos. Gabriela is still ahead, with 961 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gabino against Gabriela, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gabino Gabriela

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Gabriela for 95 years and Gabino for 20 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Gabino Gabriela
Total US births 2,57386,553
Most in one year 673,369
Babies in 2025 33961
Estimated living today 2,20085,000
Median age today 2823
Peak year 19932003
Best rank 1,420th boys102nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,450th317th
First recorded 19041903
Girls / boys 0 / 2,57386,182 / 371

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gabinos alive today are over 28; half the Gabrielas are over 23. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gabino Gabriela
France 102,640

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gabino and Gabriela.