Gaby

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Diminutive of Gabrielle/Gabriel, Hebrew 'God is my strength'

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gaby is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 61st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.8K
  • CLChile≈1 in 6.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈15,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
271 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GabyLatin(measured from records)
ΓκαμπιGreek(measured from records)

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)

Diminutive of Gabrielle/Gabriel, Hebrew 'God is my strength'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gaby 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.

Where Gaby is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 90K—Gaby11
PE Peru#551≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Gaby57
BO Bolivia#61≈5,800 est.≈1 in 2K—Gaby37
CO Colombia—≈4,900 est.≈1 in 10K1Gaby57
US United States—4,6451 in 72K4.2KGaby271
NL Netherlands—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 5.2K1.7KGaby24
CL Chile#971≈2,700 est.≈1 in 6.7K2Gaby55
CH Switzerland—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Gaby12

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gaby is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Gaeby, Gäby, Gäbÿ, 'Gaby, Gabÿ

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Gab'Y, Gaby', Gãby, Gäby, Ga-By

  • Lao given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Gäby, Gáby, Gäbÿ, Gåbÿ, Gabý

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Gaby

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gäby

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Габи, Gabi, Kerpel, Gàbÿ, Gäby

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gaby is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a pet form of the personal name Gabriel.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In French, a diminutive of the female given name Gabrielle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Diminutif de Gabriel/Gabrielle, de l’hébreu gavri’el « force de Dieu »; fête de saint Gabriel (29 sept.).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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)

1850190019502000Gaby Morlay, b. 1893Gaby Casadesus, b. 1901Gaby Basset, b. 1902Gaby Aghion, b. 1921Gaby Stenberg, b. 1923Gaby Dohm, b. 1943Gaby Dellal, b. 1961Gaby Mudingayi, b. 1981Gaby Hoffmann, b. 1982Hanne Gaby Odiele, b. 1988

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 65 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Gaby
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.2K#4,134
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.7K#1,516
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020418#4,134
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—159#6,191
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202536—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20065—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20212—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20201—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#120

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Gaby mean, and where does it come from?
Diminutive of Gabrielle/Gabriel, Hebrew 'God is my strength'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
Is Gaby a male or female name?
Gaby 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.
What are other forms of the name Gaby?
In the etymology graph, Gabby, Bree and Bria are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Gaby?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,645 people named Gaby in 2020, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
How common is Gaby compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Gaby is the 61st most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
In which country does Gaby have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Gaby in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaby.

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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, “Gaby” — the 61st most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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