Gabriela
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a female given name, masculine equivalent Gabriel, equivalent to English Gabriella
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gabriela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 246(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 284
- BRBrazil1 in 508
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gabriela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #282 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 514 (measured from records)
- 1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)
416,654 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gabriella in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, HU Hungary and Gabrielle in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latin[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek(measured from records)
- BiblicalHebrew](measured from records)
a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriela
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gabriela is read(measured from records)
Gabriela is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish68%
- Portuguese15%
a female given name, masculine equivalent Gabriel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.2%
A female given name from Hebrew, a latinate feminine form of Gabriel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish5.1%
a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Gabriela, Gabrielle
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gabriela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #80 | 416,654 | 1 in 508 | 417K | Gabriela | 244 |
| AR Argentina | #66 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 284 | 375 | Gabriela | 183 |
| PL Poland | — | 137,274 | 1 in 279 | 137K | Gabriella | 42 |
| US United States | #574 | 118,795as Gabrielle | 1 in 2.8K | 118K | Gabrielle | 514 |
| RO Romania | #215 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 246 | — | Gabriela | 74 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 62,350 | 1 in 172 | 62K | Gabriella | 32 |
| HU Hungary | #56 | 53,327as Gabriella | 1 in 183 | 53K | Gabriella | 177 |
416,654 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gabriela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latinate feminine form of Gabriel.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maria II of Portugalb. 1819BRnot in their usual nameQueen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalb. 1862PTnot in their usual nameTitular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
- Gabriela Mistralb. 1889CLChilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
- Heike Drechslerb. 1964DEnot in their usual nameEast German long jumper (born 1964)
- Gabriela Sabatinib. 1970ARArgentine tennis player
- Monique Curnenb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Gabriella Szabób. 1975ROnot in their usual nameRomanian athletics (sport) competitor
- María Gabriela Islerb. 1988VEVenezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Gabriela Gunčíkováb. 1993CZCzech singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 106 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 417K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 414K | #65 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 382K | #111 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 137K | #52 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 137K | #52 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 113K | #500 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 62K | #76 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 31K | #85 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #65 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 961 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gabriela come from?
- a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Gabriela Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gabriela?
- In the etymology graph, Gabrielle, Gabriele and Gabriella are forms of the same name in other languages; Gabi is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Gabriela a male or female name?
- Gabriela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gabriela have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 417 thousand people named Gabriela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabriela.
- Where is Gabriela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gabriela is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 172 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gabriela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 416,654 people named Gabriela in 2022, about 1 in 508 residents.
- How common is Gabriela compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gabriela is the 80th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Gabriela mean?
- In Spanish, a female given name, masculine equivalent Gabriel, equivalent to English Gabriella
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gabrielaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gabriela” — the 80th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.