Given name · Macedonian · Russian
Гаврил
“God is my strength”
Гаврил (Gavril) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Macedonian.
Macedonian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Gavril.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Гаврил is Gavril written in Cyrillic. Gavril is a variant of Gavriel. One Hebrew interpretation is “God is my strength.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Гаврил comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Γαβρῑήλ, from Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל (gaḇrīʾēl).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Гаврил’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Гаврил can be written in the Roman alphabet as Gavril. In Russian usage, Гаврил has a related form in Гавриил.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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