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Gavril

Boys' name

From Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Gavril has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Gavril, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gavril: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gavril means

Gavril is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gavril is used in Romanian.

Gavril comes through Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ and Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Gavril between 2008 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2015; its best national rank was #9,892 in 2015.

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 Gavril?

Gavril had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gavril 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gavril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gavrils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gavril was born before 2012 — so the typical Gavril is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Gavril 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (7)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,892
2015

Spellings of Gavril

Gavril is not the most common spelling — Gabriel is, with 65.8% against Gavril's <0.01%.

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.

Gavril around the world

Where Gavril 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
    2020–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Gavril by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,892
2015
Peak year
2015
7 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gavril

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

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Sibling names for Gavril

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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