Gabriela: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced gahb-ree-EL-ah · 4 syllables

Gabriela means “God is my strong man; strong man, hero”, from Hebrew.

Learned borrowing from Latin Gabriela.

How popular is Gabriela?

Gabriela was the #317 name in the US in 2025, given to 961 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 35% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Babies named Gabriela in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2000).

Half of US adults named Gabriela are older than 29; most are between 19 and 51. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Gabriela have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Gabriela means “God is my strong man; strong man, hero”. It comes from Hebrew.

Gabriela is pronounced gahb-ree-EL-ah.

Gabriela was the #317 name in the US in 2025, given to 961 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 35% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Half of US adults named Gabriela are older than 29. Most are between 19 and 51.