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Gable vs Gabriella

American parents have registered 137,704 Gabriellas since 1880, against 810 Gables. Gabriella is still ahead, with 2,545 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gable against Gabriella, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gable Gabriella

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 122 years in which either name was published, Gabriella for 119 years and Gable for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Gable Gabriella
Total US births 810137,704
Most in one year 236,190
Babies in 2025 182,545
Estimated living today 660136,000
Median age today 2216
Peak year 20092010
Best rank 4,278th boys33rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th105th
First recorded 19091890
Girls / boys 6 / 804137,636 / 68

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 Gables alive today are over 22; half the Gabriellas are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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