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Gadiel

#1,186 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gadiel has been given to 2,568 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 203 recorded.

Babies named Gadiel, 2025

1 in 19,200

Gadiel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gadiel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gadiel means

Gadiel is a given name.

The naming story behind Gadiel

Wikidata records Gadiel as a given name. The entity identifier is Q5516382, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,568 boys were recorded with the name Gadiel between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 203 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,065 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,065 in 2020 to #1,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,025 in 2015 to #1,186 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.

How common is Gadiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,200
173 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,870
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,186
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gadiel 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,284 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gadiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gadiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gadiel was born before 2018 — so the typical Gadiel is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,568
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (1,066).

Is Gadiel 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
−113
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+839
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.2%
Peak was 2024 (203)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,065
2020

Spellings of Gadiel

Gadiel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 77.1% against Gadiel's 0.10%.

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 Gadiel is used

Across 2016–2025, Gadiel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 10,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,882
  2. 2Texas1 in 6,667
  3. 3California1 in 7,692
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 8,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 9,091
  6. 6New York1 in 9,091
  7. 7Georgia1 in 11,111
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 12,500

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.

Gadiel around the world

Where Gadiel 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
    2016–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2002–2025
    #4,685
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gadiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 121
Best rank ever
#1,065
2020
Peak year
2024
203 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,568
Count in 2025
173

Names similar to Gadiel

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

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Names with a curve like Gadiel

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

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Sibling names for Gadiel

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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