Given name & surname
Gabrial
Gabrial is a masculine given name. It is used in Faroese.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Gabrial isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gabrial through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,891
- 1,627 boys · 264 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 106 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −74%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 100% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 97 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,538 as a first name in 2020; 116 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gabrial’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Gabrial has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Gabriele.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.