Gabby

given name · Latin script

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

Gabby is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from ME gaby ‘simpleton, fool’; first attested John Gaby 1275.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
  • USUnited States1 in 31K

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.

United States (measured from records)

10,587 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
353 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GabbyLatin(measured from records)
ГаббиCyrillic(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)

from ME gaby ‘simpleton, fool’; first attested John Gaby 1275

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gabby 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 Gabby is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,5871 in 31K10KGabby353
CN China—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 224K—Gabby14
PH Philippines—≈4,400 est.≈1 in 25K—Gabby64
NG Nigeria—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 123KlistedGabby29
AU Australia—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 18K1Gabby135
GH Ghana#475≈920 est.≈1 in 32K—Gabby18
BG Bulgaria—≈150 est.≈1 in 47K—Gabby19

10,587 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Gabby is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Gäbbÿ

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Gåbby

50 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)

Gabby 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.

  • In English, A diminutive form of the male given name Gabriel.

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

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)

1850190019502000Gabby Street, b. 1882Gabby Hartnett, b. 1900Francis Gabreski, b. 1919Gabby Pahinui, b. 1921Gabby Concepcion, b. 1964Gabby Giffords, b. 1970Gabby Logan, b. 1973Gabby Eigenmann, b. 1978Gabby George, b. 1997Gabby Barrett, b. 2000

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 34 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Gabby
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010227#82,908
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020218#90,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000174#96,918
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 are other forms of the name Gabby?
In the etymology graph, Gaby, Gabi and Gabe are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Gabby mean, and where does it come from?
from ME gaby ‘simpleton, fool’; first attested John Gaby 1275 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Is Gabby a male or female name?
Gabby 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 Gabby have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Gabby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabby.
How common is the name Gabby?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,587 people named Gabby in 2020, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Gabby compared with other names?
In Ghana, Gabby is the 475th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gabby” — the 475th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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