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 [ 3 syll. ga-briel, gab-ri-el ] The girl name Gabriel is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced GEYBRiyahL KEY. Gabriel has its origins in the Hebrew language and it is used largely in English. Gabriel is a form of the German Gabriele. A variant of the name is the pet form Gay. Gabriel is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 2000, 0.015% of baby girls were named Gabriel. It was #780 in rank then. The baby name has seen a substantial decline in popularity since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. Within all girl names in its family, Gabriel was nevertheless the most popular in 2008. Gabriel has primarily been a boy name in the last century. In 2001, 44 times more boys than girls were given the name Gabriel. Baby names that sound like Gabriel include the German Gabriele, the English and French Gabrielle, the Hebrew Gavriela, the English and Hebrew Gavrielle, the Hebrew Gavrila, the English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian Gabriela, the English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian Gabriella, and the English and Hebrew Gavriella. KEY: Pronunciation for Gabriel: G as in "green (G.R.IY.N)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"   |
