Gabriel (given name)

Gabriel

Angel Gabriel

Pronunciation| English: /ˈɡeɪbriəl/ GAY-bree-əl
French: [ɡabʁijɛl]
Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel]
Language(s)| Hebrew
Origin
Word/name| Hebrew גַבְרִיאֵל
Meaning| "God is my strength"
Region of origin| Israel
Other names
Variant form(s)|

* Gabriella
* Gabrielle
* Gabrijel
* Gabor
* Jibril

Nickname(s)| Gabe, Gabby

Gabriel is a given name derived from the Hebrew name Gaḇrīʾēl (גַבְרִיאֵל) meaning "God is my strength". The name was popularized by the association with the angel Gabriel. In some rare cases it can be written as Gabryel.

## Variants

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"Gabriel" name variants  Language  | Name variant  | Use  | Notes

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Aramaic  | Goriel, Gorel, Gawriel (ܓܒܪܐܝܠ)  |  |
Afrikaans  | Gabriël  |  |
Albanian  | Gabriel  |  |
Amharic  | Gäbrəʾel (ገብርኤል)  |  |
Arabic  | Jibrīl (جِبْرِيل), Jibrāʾīl (جِبْرَائِيل)  |  |
Armenian  | Gabriel (Գաբրիել)  |  |
Armenian  | Gabriella (Գաբրիելա)  | feminine  |
Azerbaijani  | Cəbrayıl  |  |
Belarusian  | Habrus' (Габрусь)  |  |
Belarusian  | Habryil (Габрыіл)  |  |
Belarusian  | Hawryil (Гаўрыіл)  |  |
Belarusian  | Hawryila (Гаўрыла)  |  |
Bosnian  | Fibril  |  |
Bulgarian  | Gavrail (Гавраил)  |  |
Bulgarian  | Gavril (Гаврил)  |  |
Catalan  | Biel  |  |
Catalan  | Gabriel  |  |
Cantonese  | Gaabaaklit (加百列)  |  |
Croatian  | Gabrijel  |  |
Czech  | Gabriel  |  |
Danish  | Gabriel  |  |
Dutch  | Gabriël  |  |
Finnish  | Kaapo  |  |
French  | Gabriel  |
French  | Gabrielle  | feminine  |
Galician  | Gabriel  |  |
Georgian  | Gabrieli (გაბრიელი)  |  |
German  | Gabi  | neutral nickname  |
German  | Gabriel  |  |
German  | Gabriele  | feminine  |
Greek  | Gavriíl (Γαβριήλ)  |  |
Gujarati  | Gēbriyala (ગેબ્રિયલ)  |  |
Hebrew  | Gavriel (גבריאל)  |  |
Hindi  | Gēbriyala (गेब्रियल)  |  |
Hungarian  | Gabriella  | feminine  |
Hungarian  | Gábor  | masculine  |
Icelandic  | Gabríel  |  |
Indonesian  | Jibril, Gabriel  |  |
Italian  | Gabriele  |  |
Japanese  | Gaburieru (ガブリエル)  |  |
Kannada  | Gēbriyal (ಗೇಬ್ರಿಯಲ್)  |  |
Korean  | Kapeuriel (가브리엘)  |  |
Kurdish  | Cebraîl  |  |
Latvian  | Gabriels  |  |
Lithuanian  | Gabrielius  |  |
Macedonian  | Gavril (Гаврил)  |  |
Maltese  | Gabrijel  |  |
Mandarin  | Jiābùlǐir (加布里埃尔)  |  |
Norwegian  | Gabriel  |  |
Persian  | Jebreīl (جبرئيل)  |  |
Portuguese  | Gabi  | neutral nickname  |
Portuguese  | Gabriel  |  |
Portuguese  | Gabriela  | feminine  |
Russian  | Gavriil (Гавриил)  |  |
Serbian  | Gavrilo  |  |
Slovak  | Gabriel  |  |
Somali  | Jibriil (جِبْريلْ)  |  |
Spanish  | Gabi  | neutral nickname  |
Spanish  | Gabo  | masculine nickname  |
Spanish  | Gabriel  |  |
Spanish  | Gabriela  | feminine  |
Swedish  | Gabriel  |  |
Syriac  | Gebrael (ܓܒܪܐܝܠ)  |  |
Tamil  | Kēpriyal (கேப்ரியல்)  |  |
Telugu  | Gēbriyēl (గాబ్రియేల్)  |  |
Turkish  | Cebrâîl  |  |
Urdu  | Jebreel (جِبْريل)  |  |
Welsh  | Gabriel  |  |
Yiddish  | Gabriel (גאַבריאעל)  |  |

* Bengali: জিবরীল and জিব্রীল (Jibe), জিবরাঈল and জিব্রাঈল (Libra)
* German: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriele (feminine), Gabi (feminine nickname)
* Hungarian: Gábriel, Gábor (masculine), Gabriella (feminine), Gabi (nickname for both the feminine and masculine forms)
* Indonesian: Gabriel, Gabriella (feminine), Gabriele, Gabriela
* Irish: Gaibrial, Gaibriéil, Gaibriél
* Italian: Gabriele (masculine), Gabriella (feminine)
* Polish: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela (feminine), Gabryś (masculine nickname), Gabrysia (feminine nickname), Gabi (masculine and feminine nickname)
* Portuguese: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela, Gabrielle (feminine), Biel (masculine nickname), Gabi (feminine nickname)
* Romanian: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela (feminine), Gabi (masculine and feminine nickname), Gavriil, Gavril, Gavrilă
* Russian: Гавриил (Gavriil), Гаврил (Gavril), Гаврила (Gavrila); diminutives: Gavrik, Gavryusha
* Serbian: Гаврило (Gavrilo); diminutives: Гаша (Gaša), Гавро (Gavro), Гајо (Gajo)
* Ukrainian: Гаврило (Havrylo); diminutives: Гаврилко (Havrylko), Ганик (Hanyk)

## People named Gabriel

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### Royal houses, nobility and clergy

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* Gabriel of Kakheti (died 881), Prince and chorepiscopus (bishop) of Kakheti
* Gabriel of Melitene (died 1102), ruler of Melitene
* Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg (1489–1539)
* Gabriel de la Cueva, 5th Duke of Alburquerque (c. 1515–1571)
* Gabriel, comte de Montgomery (1530–1574)
* Gabriel de Luetz (died 1553)
* Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1600–1675)
* Gabriel de Guilleragues (1628–1684)
* Gabriel of Lencastre, 7th Duke of Aveiro (1667–1745)
* Patriarch Gabriel II of Constantinople (died 1659)
* Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople (reigned 1702–1707)
* César Gabriel de Choiseul (1712–1785)
* Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752–1788)
* Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887–1955)
* Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1897–1975)
* Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis (1922–1942)
* Gabriel (archimandrite) (1929–1995), a Georgian religious figure of the 20th century
* Gabriel de Broglie (born 1931)
* Prince Gabriel of Belgium (born 2003)

### Artists and entertainers

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* Gabriel Bateman (born 2004), American actor
* Gabriel Braga Nunes (born 1972), Brazilian actor
* Gabriel Byrne (born 1950), Irish actor
* Gabriel Casaccia (1907–1980), Paraguayan novelist
* Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969), French writer and novelist
* Gabriel Contino (born 1974), stage name Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian singer-songwriter and rapper
* Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter
* Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), late-Romantic French composer
* Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian novelist
* Gabriel Iglesias (born 1976), American comedian
* Gabriel Macht (born 1972), American actor
* Gabriel Morrissette (born 1959), Canadian illustrator
* Gabe Saporta (born 1979), Uruguayan-American musician
* Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), Austrian painter
* Gabriel von Seidl (1848–1913), German architect

### Athletes

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* Gabriel Agbonlahor (born 1986), English footballer
* Gabriel Arteaga (born 1976), Cuban judoka
* Gabriel Bandeira (born 1999), Brazilian Paralympic swimmer
* Gabriel Barbosa (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969), Argentine footballer
* Gabriel Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball player
* Gabe Cupps (born 2004), American basketball player
* Gabriel Davis (born 1999), American football player
* Gabriel de Moura (born 1988), Brazilian football defender
* Gabriel Deck (born 1995), Argentine basketball player
* Gabriel Diallo (born 2001), Canadian tennis player
* Gabby Espinas (born 1982), Filipino basketball player
* Gabriel Eugénio Souza (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Favale (born 1967), Argentine football referee
* Gabriel Geay, Tanzanian distance runner
* Gabriel Enrique Gómez (1984), Panamanian footballer
* Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player
* Gabriel Gonzaga (born 1979), Brazilian jiu-jitsu and UFC fighter
* Gabe Hall (born 2001), American football player
* Gabriel Hamer-Webb (born 2000), English rugby union player
* Gabriel Heinze (born 1978), Argentine footballer
* Gabriel Hernández (disambiguation), several people
* Gabriel Hernández (boxer) (1973–2001), Dominican Republic boxer
* Gabriel Jesus (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
* Gabe Jeudy-Lally (born 2001), American football player
* Gabe Kapler (born 1975), American major league baseball outfielder and manager
* Gabriel Landeskog (born 1992), Swedish ice hockey player
* Gabriel Lundberg (born 1994), Danish basketball player
* Gabriel Magalhães (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Martinelli (born 2001), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Milito (born 1980), Argentine footballer
* Gabriel Mendoza (born 1968), Chilean footballer
* Gabriel Minadeo (born 1967), Argentine field hockey player and coach
* Gabriel Monteiro Vasconcelos (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Morency (born 1970), Canadian sports broadcaster
* Gabe Norwood (born 1985), Filipino basketball player
* Gabriel Obertan (born 1989), French footballer
* Gabriel Olaseni (born 1992), British basketball player
* Gabriel Paulista (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel Popescu (born 1973), Romanian footballer
* Gabriel Reis (born 1984), Brazilian water polo player
* Gabi Teichner (born 1945), Israeli basketball player
* Gabriel Varga (born 1985), Canadian kick boxer
* Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
* Gabriel José Ferreira Mesquita (born 1998), Brazilian footballer
* Gabe York (born 1993), American basketball player

### Other

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* Gabriel Al-Salem (1967–2010), American businessman and author
* Gabriel Aubry (born 1975), Canadian model
* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), European physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker
* Gabriel García Marquez, Literature Nobel
* Gabriel Kaplan (born 1944), American comedian and poker player
* Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor
* Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher
* Gabriel Nkgweng, South African politician
* Gabriel Smith (1776–1800), leader of a slave rebellion in the United States
* Gabriel I. H. Williams, Liberian journalist
* Gabriel Weston (born 1970), English female surgeon, author and television presenter
* Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918), Bosnian Serb whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria led to the outbreak of World War I.

## Fictional characters

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* Gabriel, an angel, and the main antagonist of the video game Ultrakill
* Gabriel, a crime lord, and the recurring antagonist in the third season of the 1987 TV series Beauty and the Beast
* Gabriel, the protagonist of the video game Fable: The Journey
* Gabriel, one of the missing children from Five Nights at Freddy's
* Gabriel, a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
* Gabriel the Warrior, one of the main characters in Minecraft Story Mode
* Gabriel Agreste, the main antagonist in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and the father of Adrien Agreste
* Gabriel Allon, an Israeli Mossad agent, who is the main protagonist of a series of books by Daniel Silva
* Gabriel Angelos, one of the main characters in the video game series Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
* Gabriel Ashlocke, the main antagonist of the second series of Mutant X
* Gabriel Belmont, the protagonist of the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its two sequels
* Gabriel Birid, the protagonist of the series Gabriel's Fire which was later revamped as Pros and Cons
* Gabriel Boutin, a character in Sally Green's trilogy Half Bad
* Gabriel Churchkitten, a fictional cat in the novels by Margot Austin
* Gabriel Cohuelo, also known as Velocidad
* Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan, one of the main characters in the Disney series Good Luck Charlie
* Gabriel "Gabe" Goodman, a character in the Broadway musical Next to Normal
* Grocer Gabriel, a character in the 2023 television series Rubble & Crew
* Gabriel Gray, the real name of the character Sylar, from the television series Heroes
* Gabriel 'Gabe' Jones, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics, and a member of the Howling Commandos
* The title character of Gabriel Knight, a PC game series
* Gabriel Lawrence, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
* Gabe Lewis, one of the supporting characters from The Office
* Gabriel Logan, the protagonist of the video game series Syphon Filter
* Gabriel May, the female protagonist's evil parasitic twin in James Wan's 2021 supernatural horror movie Malignant
* Gabriel Oak, one of the protagonists from Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd
* Gabriel Reyes, a playable character in the video game, Overwatch, under the alias "Reaper"
* Gabriel Rorke, the main antagonist of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
* Gabriel Santiago, a fictional character in the Android: Netrunner universe
* Gabriel Santoro, of the novel Third and Indiana
* Gabriel Stokes, a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and the TV series of the same name
* Gabriel Summers, a Marvel Comics villain better known as Vulcan
* Gabriel Tenma White, a character from Gabriel Dropout
* Gabriel "Gabe" Ugliano, the protagonist's stepfather from Percy Jackson & the Olympians
* Gabriel Van Helsing, the protagonist of the 2004 film Van Helsing
* Gabriel Vaughn, the protagonist of the 2014 TV series Intelligence
* Gabriel, the baby protected by Jonas in The Giver

## References

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## See also

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* All pages with titles beginning with Gabriel
* Gabriela (disambiguation)
* Gabriella (disambiguation)
* Gibril (disambiguation)
* Jibril (disambiguation)

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