How popular is the baby name Gabriel in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Gabriel.
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In 2024, from January through September, the European country of Portugal welcomed approximately 62,000 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Maria and Francisco (for the sixth year in a row) according to provisional data released in early December, 2024, by the Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN).
Here are Portugal’s projected top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2024:
Girl names
Maria, 4,295 baby girls
Alice, 992
Benedita, 973
Matilde, 942
Leonor, 913
Carolina, 709
Aurora, 697
Camila, 598
Margarida, 586
Beatriz, 551
Boy names
Francisco, 1,270 baby boys
Lourenço, 1,040
Vicente, 1,036 (tie)
Tomás, 1,036 (tie)
João, 1,027
Duarte, 1,012
Afonso, 978
Gabriel, 851
Miguel, 839
Santiago, 782
The name that stood out to Filipa of the Portuguese baby name blog Nomes e mais Nomes was Aurora, “which entered the top 10 strongly, occupying 7th position, even surpassing Camila, which was the craze of recent years!” Here’s her actual sentence (apologies for my clunky translation):
Mas, este ano, o destaque tem de ir inteiramente para Aurora, que entrou em força no top 10, ocupando a 7.ª posição, chegando a ultrapassar Camila, que era a coqueluche dos últimos anos!
The state of Arizona will likely welcome more than 77,000 babies in 2024.
What will the top baby names of the year be? Olivia and Liam, according to provisional data released in late December, 2024, by the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Here are Arizona’s projected top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2024:
Girl names
Olivia
Emma
Isabella
Sophia
Amelia
Mia
Camila
Charlotte
Sofia
Luna
Evelyn
Aurora
Aria
Violet
Ava
Gianna
Penelope
Eliana
Elena
Ellie
Valentina
Hazel
Layla
Mila
Lily
Emily
Harper
Ivy
Scarlett
Chloe
Emilia
Leilani
Delilah
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Victoria
Nora
Avery
Maria
Abigail
Nova
Ella
Madison
Liliana
Grace
Daisy
Natalia
Genesis
Athena
Maya
Boy names
Liam
Noah
Mateo
Sebastian
Oliver
Elijah
Alexander
Benjamin
Daniel
Julian
Santiago
Michael
James
Ethan
Aiden
David
Angel
Logan
Mason
Jacob
Ezra
Gabriel
William
Adrian
Isaac
Levi
Anthony
Lucas
Joseph
Ezekiel
Wyatt
Elias
Luke
Samuel
Jose
Henry
Isaiah
Jackson
Matthew
Jayden
Jesus
Luis
Jack
Theodore
Dylan
Carter
Owen
Andrew
Lincoln
Grayson
In the girls’ top 10, Sofia replaced Evelyn.
In the boys’ top 10, Alexander, Daniel, and Julian replaced Santiago, Ezra, and Levi.
And Juniper, which was the #1 girl name in Arizona’s Coconino County in 2022, only managed to rank 90th state-wide in 2024.
If you’d like to see Arizona’s projected rankings for 2023, you can find them in this post.
In 2023, the Southern European country of Italy welcomed 379,890 babies — 184,514 girls and 195,376 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Leonardo, yet again.
Here are Italy’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Sofia, 4,971 baby girls
Aurora, 4,648
Ginevra, 4,274
Vittoria, 4,194
Giulia, 3,732
Beatrice, 3,425 – pronounced beh-a-TREE-cheh
Ludovica, 3,157
Alice, 3,014 – pronounced a-LEE-cheh
Emma, 2,529
Matilde, 2,465
Anna, 2,128
Camilla, 2,091
Bianca, 1,992
Azzurra, 1,922
Chiara, 1,914 – pronounced KYAH-rah
Nicole, 1,792
Giorgia, 1,780
Isabel, 1,667
Greta, 1,635
Noemi, 1,439
Martina, 1,392
Arianna, 1,389
Gaia, 1,370
Sara, 1,368
Rebecca, 1,328
Viola, 1,325
Elena, 1,270
Ambra, 1,257
Chloe, 1,196 (tie)
Diana, 1,196 (tie)
Adele, 1,194
Mia, 1,192
Margherita, 1,095
Sole, 1,088 – pronounced SOH-leh
Francesca, 1,082
Cecilia, 1,060
Gioia, 1,018
Emily, 1,017
Marta, 964
Elisa, 953
Nina, 929
Lavinia, 912
Anita, 875
Amelia, 870
Eleonora, 853
Carlotta, 833
Maria, 803
Celeste, 788
Eva, 751
Giada, 735
Boy names
Leonardo, 7,096 baby boys
Edoardo, 5,603
Tommaso, 4,687
Francesco, 4,534
Alessandro, 4,383
Mattia, 4,349
Lorenzo, 4,006
Gabriele, 3,954
Riccardo, 3,600
Andrea, 3,333
Diego, 2,722
Giuseppe, 2,661
Matteo, 2,648
Enea, 2,564
Nicolò, 2,444
Antonio, 2,424
Federico, 2,313
Giovanni, 2,093
Filippo, 2,046
Samuele, 2,041
Pietro, 1,993
Giulio, 1,749
Gioele, 1,641 – pronounced jo-EH-leh
Davide, 1,597
Michele, 1,590
Christian, 1,541
Elia, 1,522
Gabriel, 1,497
Noah, 1,386
Marco, 1,353
Salvatore, 1,324
Liam, 1,236
Luca, 1,230
Vincenzo, 1,211
Thomas, 1,146
Emanuele, 1,100
Alessio, 1,056
Nathan, 1,007
Giorgio, 1,006
Samuel, 1,005
Jacopo, 1,002
Giacomo, 1,000
Ettore, 970
Raffael, 900
Daniele, 899
Simone, 892
Luigi, 886
Damiano, 830
Domenico, 818
Santiago, 798
The girls’ top 100 included Anastasia (57th), Sveva (75th), Mariasole (83rd), and Letizia (97th).
The boys’ top 100 included Ludovico (56th), Niccolò (66th), Brando (73rd), and Ciro (94th).
The girl name Azzurra (which is associated with Italy’s national soccer team gli Azzurri, “the Blues”) ranked 20th in both 2022 and 2021 before jumping to 12th place last year.
Speaking of soccer…I recently learned that Italian soccer star Francesco Totti (who played for AS Roma from 1993 to 2017) influenced baby names in Italy via the names of his three children:
The usage of Cristian rose after his son Cristian was born in November of 2005:
2006: 3,028 boys named Cristian (rank: 25th)
2005: 1,619 boys named Cristian (rank: 39th)
2004: 1,616 boys named Cristian (rank: 38th)
The usage of Chanel rose after his daughter Chanel was born in May of 2007:
2008: 158 girls named Chanel (rank: 189th)
2007: 63 girls named Chanel (rank: 314th)
2006: fewer than five girls named Chanel
The usage of Isabel rose after his daughter Isabel was born in March of 2016:
Some possible influences/associations for a few of the above:
Filianore is a character in the video game Dark Souls III (2016) — specifically, in the downloadable content pack Dark Souls III: The Ringed City (2017).
St. Frowin of Engelberg was a 12th-century Swiss German abbot.
Itgelt is likely based on the Mongolian word itgel, meaning “faith, belief.”
Kordian is the main character of the Polish drama Kordian (1834) by Juliusz Slowacki.
Lysithea refers to several figures in Greek mythology, as well as to a character in the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019).
Metatron is an archangel mentioned in Jewish folklore.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the president of Ukraine.
St. Willibald was an 8th-century Englishman who became a bishop in Bavaria.
Finally, here’s a link to Austria’s 2022 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
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