Gabe
2025 SSA
About Gabe
Gabe ranked in the Top 1000 from 1880 until 1905, when it fell into obscurity. There are fewer than 100 boys named Gabe, just plain Gabe, each year in the US, compared with over 10,000 named Gabriel. Our advice: Go with the crowd and choose the angelic long form, and then call him Gabe if you want to.
Pronounced GAYB.
As of October 2026, Gabe ranked #4591 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #584 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #867.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,784 | 84 | 43.7 |
| 2015 | #1,745 | 88 | 45.9 |
| 2016 | #2,393 | 54 | 28.5 |
| 2017 | #2,281 | 58 | 31.3 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 56 | 30.8 |
| 2019 | #2,497 | 53 | 29.5 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 49 | 28.4 |
| 2021 | #2,832 | 44 | 25.2 |
| 2022 | #3,360 | 35 | 20 |
| 2023 | #2,967 | 42 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | #4,598 | 22 | 12.8 |
| 2025 | #4,591 | 22 | 12.9 |
World rankings
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Gabe on lists
Famous Gabes
- Gabriel Andrew "Gabe" Carimi
American NFL football player
- Gabriel Stefan "Gabe" Kapler
American baseball player
- Gabriel Jordan "Gabe" Gross
American baseball player
- Gabriel Howard "Gabe" Paul
American baseball manager
- Gabe Ikard
American NFL football player
- Gabriel Allen "Gabe" White
American NFL football player
- Gabe Logan Newell
American video game developer of Valve
- Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan
American actor/comedian
- Gabe Fleisher
American child journalist; creator of newsletter "Wake Up To Politics"
- Gabriel "Gabe" Alexander
son of American actor Jason Alexander
- Gabriel “Gabe” Conte
YouTuber and Vine star
Gabe in pop culture
- Gabriel Susan "Gabe" Lewis
character on TV's "The Office"
- Gabe Jensen
from the movie "Mindhunters" played by LL Cool J
- Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan
character on Disney's "Good Luck Charlie"
- Gabriel "Gabe" Walker
from movie "Cliffhanger" played by Sylvester Stallone
- Gabe (Smelly)
from the Percy Jackson Series
- Gabe Goodman
character in the award,winning musical "Next to Normal"
- Gabe Hoffman
a main character in Mary Kubica's novel "The Good Girl"
- Gabe Ugliano
character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians"