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Gabe

#4,590 in 2025Boys' name

God is my strong man, through Gabriel

Gabe has been given to 4,110 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,590 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 126 recorded.

Babies named Gabe, 2025

1 in 151,000

Gabe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gabe: meaning, origin, and history

God is my strong man, through Gabriel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gabe means

Gabe belongs to the name family reached through Gabe → Gabriel. Its meaning is “God is my strong man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gabe is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gabriel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gabe is pronounced /ɡeɪb/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,110 boys were recorded with the name Gabe between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 126 in 2005; its best national rank was #584 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,596 in 2020 to #4,590 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,732 in 2015 to #4,590 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gabe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,590
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gabe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gabe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gabes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gabe was born before 2000 — so the typical Gabe is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,471
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Choose a decade

2000s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (1,102).

Is Gabe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+15
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,994
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,858
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 2005 (126)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#584
1880

Spellings of Gabe

Gabe is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 38.5% against Gabe's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gabe is used

Across 1910–2025, Gabe was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 136,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 33,333
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gabe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gabe around the world

Where Gabe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gabe

People whose public names include Gabe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gabe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,590
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,994
Best rank ever
#584
1880
Peak year
2005
126 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,110
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Gabe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GabinoGableAbeBernabeGabrialGabrieleBabeGabriellGaborJabeGabrielleCabeGabryelGaberielGabyGabreilKabeGaberialGabrianGabrielaGabrienGabrealGabrielGabin

Names with a curve like Gabe

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gabe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CyEbenElyPatricioAmmonIsrealKarstenMariusKenyonMarkoObedHyrum

Sibling names for Gabe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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