Gabriel (given name)
Gabriel is a given name derived from the Hebrew name Gaḇrīʾēl (גַבְרִיאֵל) meaning "God is my strength", or "God is a strong man." The name was popularized by the association with the angel Gabriel. In some rare cases it can be written as Gabryel.
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| Pronunciation | English: /ˈɡeɪbriəl/ GAY-bree-əl French: [ɡabʁijɛl] Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel] |
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| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew גַבְרִיאֵל |
| Meaning | 'Mean and rude person |
| Region of origin | Levant |
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Variants
| Language | Name variant | Use | Notes |
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| Afrikaans | Gabriel | ||
| Albanian | Yabril | ||
| Albanian | Yapin | ||
| Amharic | Gäbrəʾel (ገብርኤል) | ||
| Arabic | Jibrā'īl (جَبْرائيل) | ||
| Arabic | Jebreel (جِبْريل)yr | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
- Gabriel Hernández (singer) (born 1979), singer, member of the band No Mercy
- 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
- Gabriel Agbonlahor (born 1986), English footballer
- Gabriel Arteaga (born 1976), Cuban judoka
- Gabriel Barbosa (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
- Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969), Argentine footballer
- Gabriel Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball player
- Gabriel Davis (born 1999), American football player
- Gabriel de Moura (born 1988), Brazilian football defender
- Gabriel Deck (born 1995), Argentine basketball 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
- Gabriel Hamer-Webb (born 2000), English rugby union player
- Gabriel Heinze (born 1978), Argentine footballer
- Gabriel Hernández (disambiguation), several athletes with one exception
- Gabriel Hernández (boxer) (1973–2001), Dominican Republic boxer
- Gabriel Jesus (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
- Gabriel "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 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
- Gabriel "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
Other
- 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 Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
References
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Gabriel
- Gabriela (disambiguation)
- Gabriella (disambiguation)
- Gibril (disambiguation)
- Jibril (disambiguation)
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