Gaby
Gaby was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,012 among girls’ names; 1,463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Gaby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gaby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gaby is “a female given name from French.”
Short form of Gabrielle.
/ˈɡæbi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gaby?
#4,012 among girls’ names, 2025
Gaby fell from #3,724 in 2015 to #4,012 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 22.4 per million.
70 babies in 2007, the peak
Gaby peaked in 2007, when 70 girls were given it, #2,622 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,012 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,849 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,861 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,725 | 25.0 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,121 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,587 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,281 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,264 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,907 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,669 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,724 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,286 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,030 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,547 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,742 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,736 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,476 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,282 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,622 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,815 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,734 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,646 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,143 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,835 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,733 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,908 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,459 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,842 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,972 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,868 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,302 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,945 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,055 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,337 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,825 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,861 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,251 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,426 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,901 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,029 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,762 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,200 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,771 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,356 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,287 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,087 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,509 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,566 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,568 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,642 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,388 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,266 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,147 | 2.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,006 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,262 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,463 Americans recorded as Gaby, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 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 Gaby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaby, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,463 Americans ever recorded as Gaby. The median Gaby alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 4,645 people named Gaby (4,227 women and girls, 418 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 472 |
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 Gaby born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,981 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,540 | 0.2× |
Where Gaby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gaby is most over-represented in California: since 1920 it was given 1.6 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 Gaby 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,119 babies since 1880, Gaby is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 103 babies (35%), the second 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 Gaby
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 Gaby and names like it
- Compare Gaby and GabbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGaby peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaby since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Gaby: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Gaby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gaby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.