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Gavrilo

Boys' name

English equivalent of Gabriel

Gavrilo has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2022, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Gavrilo, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gavrilo: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Gabriel

Hebrew

What Gavrilo means

Gavrilo is a English equivalent of Gabriel.

Origin, language, and formation

Gavrilo is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Gavrilo comes through Ancient Greek Γαβριήλ and Biblical Hebrew גַּבְרִיאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gabriel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Gavrilo is pronounced /ɡǎʋrilo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Gavrilo between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2022; its best national rank was #12,982 in 2022.

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 Gavrilo?

Gavrilo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gavrilo 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gavrilo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gavrilos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gavrilo was born before 2022 — so the typical Gavrilo is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Gavrilo 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 2022 (5)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,982
2022

Spellings of Gavrilo

Gavrilo is not the most common spelling — Gavriel is, with 53.5% against Gavrilo's 0.13%.

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.

Gavrilo around the world

Where Gavrilo 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.

  • France
    2020–2021
    #5,832
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gavrilo 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
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Best rank ever
#12,982
2022
Peak year
2022
5 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gavrilo

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

GavriilGavianGavyneGavienGavvinKhiloDamiloKhailoMykhailoShailoDomitiloZiloJuiloThiloErmiloGavrilCailoDeangiloMihailoMikhailoAiloJuancamiloEiloLilo

Sibling names for Gavrilo

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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