Gabi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gabi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as a diminutive of the female given name Gabriela, equivalent to English Gabby.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.1K
- USUnited States1 in 31Kas Gabby
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 Gabi 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gabi is read(measured from records)
Gabi 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.
- German47%
) Gaby: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Spanish17%
- English11%
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.5%
a diminutive of the female given name Gabriela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gabi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #340 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Gabi | 173 |
| RO Romania | #995 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Gabi | 34 |
| US United States | — | 10,587as Gabby | 1 in 31K | 10K | Gabi | 273 |
| AT Austria | #243 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 22 | Gabi | 67 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Gabi | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | #740 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 169 | Gabi | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 868 | 1 in 244K | 868 | — | 4 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gabi | 48 |
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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Gabi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, taro (Colocasia esculenta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klg, night
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)
- Gabi Amranib. 1934ILIsraeli actor
- Gabi Kubachb. 1944DEGerman film director
- Gabi Gazitb. 1947ILIsraeli journalist
- Gabi Ashkenazib. 1954ILIsraeli military officer and politician
- Gabriele Zimmerb. 1955DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Gabi Hiftb. 1958ATAustrian actress
- Gabi Müllerb. 1974CHcanoeist
- Gabi Greckob. 1989USrapper
- Gabi Kanichowskyb. 1997ILIsraeli association footballer
- Gabi Nunesb. 1997BRBrazilian association football player
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 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 169 | #7,196 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Gabi come from?
- Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gabi a male or female name?
- Gabi 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 does the name Gabi mean?
- In Spanish, a diminutive of the female given name Gabriela, equivalent to English Gabby
- What are other forms of the name Gabi?
- In the etymology graph, Gabe, Gabby and Bree are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gabi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Gabi in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabi.
- How common is the name Gabi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 868 people named Gabi in 2022, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
- How common is Gabi compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gabi is the 340th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gabi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gabiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gabi” — the 340th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.