Given name & surname
Gavriil
“helper of God”
Gavriil is a masculine given name from Russian.
Original RussianГавриил
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gavriil is a romanization of Гавриил. Гавриил goes back to Hebrew גבריאל, meaning “helper of God.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gavriil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gavriil’s family of names
In English usage, Gavriil shares an earlier linguistic root with Gabriel. In English usage, Gavriil has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Гаврии́л. In Romanian usage, Gavriil has a conventional equivalent in the French form Gabriel.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gavriil has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gavriil
- Gavrila DerzhavinRussian poet (1743-1816)
- Gavriil IlizarovSoviet physician and inventor (1921-1992)
- Gavriil KachalinRussian footballer (1911-1995)
- Gavriil GolovkinRussian diplomat (1660-1734)
- Gavriil Adrianovich TikhovSoviet astronomer1875–1960
- Gavriil Popov1st Mayor of Moscowborn 1936
- Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of RussiaRussian prince (1887–1955)
- Gavriil PopovRussian Soviet composer (1904–1972)
- Gavriil TroyepolskySoviet writer (1905–1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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