Gavriil
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God")
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2023
/ɡavrʲil/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from гаврил
Gavriil is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 619K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
- MDMoldova1 in 4.2Kas Gavril
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 Gavriil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 619K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named Гаврил, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Гаврил in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia, Gavril in RO Romania, MD Moldova, IT Italy and Гавриил in FI Finland.
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)Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God").
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gavriil is read
(measured from records)Gavriil is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Russian35%
Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God").
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English20%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Гаврии́л (Gavriíl).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gavriil in Greek.
- German7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gavriil in German.
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)Gavriil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #495 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | register #173 | Гаврил | 131 |
| RO Romania | #471 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Gavril | 61 |
| MD Moldova | #498 | 796as Gavril | 1 in 4.2K | 796 | Gavril | 11 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Гаврил | 24 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 260K | 3 | Gavril | 24 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 217as Гаврил | 1 in 9.8K | 217 | Гаврил | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 9 | 1 in 619K | 40 | Гавриил | 1 |
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: e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gavril Radomirb. 970Tsar of Bulgaria from 1014 to 1015
- Gavriil Golovkinb. 1660RURussian diplomat (1660-1734)
- Gavrila Derzhavinb. 1743RUnot in their usual nameRussian poet (1743-1816)
- Gavriil Musicescub. 1847UARomanian musician (1847–1903)
- Gavriil Tikhovb. 1875BYSoviet astronomer
- Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russiab. 1887RUnot in their usual nameRussian prince (1887–1955)
- Gavriil Popovb. 1904RURussian Soviet composer (1904–1972)
- Gavriil Ilizarovb. 1921RUSoviet physician and inventor (1921-1992)
- Gabriel Urgebadzeb. 1929GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian saint (1929–1995)
- Gabriel Popovb. 1936RUnot in their usual name1st Mayor of Moscow
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 111 | #906 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #7,674 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #7,643 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 3 | #2,424 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Gavriil mean, and where does it come from?
- Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God"). Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- What are other forms of the name Gavriil?
- In the etymology graph, Gabriel, Cebrail and Gábor are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gavriil?
- In Russian /ɡavrʲil/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gavriil a male or female name?
- Gavriil is a male 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 Gavriil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Гаврил in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gavriil most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gavriil is densest in Finland — about 1 in 619 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gavriil?
- In Finland, the national register counted 9 people named Gavriil, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
- How common is Gavriil compared with other names?
- In Russia, Gavriil is the 495th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gavriilThe 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, “Gavriil” — the 495th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.