Gabi
Gabi was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,532 among girls’ names; 275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gabi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gabi mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Gabi is “a diminutive of the female given name Gabriella”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Gábor”
Clipping and -i diminutive of Gábor or Gabriella (in the former case, changing -á- to -a-).
[ˈɡɒbi]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gabi?
#8,532 among girls’ names, 2025
Gabi rose from #13,472 in 2015 to #8,532 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 7.5 per million.
17 babies in 2003, the peak
Gabi peaked in 2003, when 17 girls were given it, #6,689 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,532 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,792 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,190 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,389 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,452 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,541 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,715 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,060 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,996 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,377 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,472 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,163 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,310 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,584 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,638 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,398 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,835 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,678 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,848 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,852 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,379 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,985 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,689 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,302 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,872 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,177 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,994 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,424 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,834 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gabi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gabi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gabi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gabi, and how old are they?
An estimated 272 Americans named Gabi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,760 people named Gabi (1,559 women and girls, 201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.4 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,351 babies since 1880, Gabi is the third most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 110 babies (11%), again the third most given.
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 Gabi
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 Gabi and names like it
- Compare Gabi and GabyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGabi peaked in 2003.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Gabi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Gabi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gabi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.