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Gabriele vs Gabriella

American parents have registered 137,704 Gabriellas since 1880, against 2,968 Gabrieles. Gabriella is still ahead, with 2,545 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gabriele 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

Gabriella has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1890 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1957, when Gabriele had 18 and Gabriella had 26.

Side by side

  Gabriele Gabriella
Total US births 2,968137,704
Most in one year 1136,190
Babies in 2025 272,545
Estimated living today 2,900136,000
Median age today 2616
Peak year 19982010
Best rank 1,774th girls33rd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd105th
First recorded 19541890
Girls / boys 2,078 / 890137,636 / 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 Gabrieles alive today are over 26; half the Gabriellas are over 16. That is 10 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 Gabriele Gabriella
Italy 138,3104,594
England and Wales 81311,176
France 1,0754,560
Switzerland 983290
Belgium 270712
Poland 151817
Scotland 3781
Norway 272444
Ireland 152431
Northern Ireland 27181

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: Gabriele and Gabriella.