Gabrielle

Where Gabrielle comes from

Borrowed from French Gabrielle, feminine form of Gabriel (see there for more).
— Wiktionary's entry for Gabrielle
  • French
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Gabrielle Anwar born
    British actress
  3. 1972
    Gabrielle Union born
    American actress, singer and model
  4. 1999
    Peak, #46
    6,130 babies named Gabrielle — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #119.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Gabrielle Union · American actress, singer and model, born 1972
  • Gabrielle Anwar · British actress, born 1970
  • Gabrielle Roy · French Canadian fiction writer, 1909–1983
  • Gabrielle d'Estrées · French noble and mistress to Henry IV of France, 1573–1599

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.