Gabriel (given name)

  • 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

"Gabriel" name variants
Language Name variant Use Notes
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

Royal houses, nobility and clergy

Artists and entertainers

Athletes

Other

Fictional characters

  • 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

See also

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