Gabby
Gabby was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,223 among girls’ names; 1,262 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Gabby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gabby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gabby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gabby is “a diminutive form of the female given names Gabrielle, Gabriella and Gabriela.”
Also “a diminutive form of the male given name Gabriel.”
/ˈɡæbi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gabby?
#3,223 among girls’ names, 2025
Gabby rose from #3,270 in 2015 to #3,223 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 30.5 per million.
67 babies in 2022, the peak
Gabby peaked in 2022, when 67 girls were given it, #2,612 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,223 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,059 | 32.7 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,629 | 41.8 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,612 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,046 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,939 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,472 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,752 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,821 | 34.8 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,029 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,270 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,244 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,689 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,283 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,512 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,586 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,965 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,281 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,728 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,095 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,869 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,049 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,711 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,176 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,647 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,197 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,609 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,238 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,553 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,853 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,004 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,087 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,755 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,849 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,618 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,860 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,041 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,893 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,095 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,886 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gabby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,262 Americans recorded as Gabby, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 49 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gabby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gabby, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,262 Americans ever recorded as Gabby. The median Gabby alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 10,587 people named Gabby (10,349 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 92 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 456 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 688 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gabby born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,474 | 0.9× |
Where Gabby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gabby is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gabby with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,351 babies since 1880, Gabby is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 110 babies (45%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gabby
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gabby and names like it
- Compare Gabby and GabyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGabby peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gabby since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Gabby.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gabby alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.