Gabe
Gabe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 584th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2005126 births
- Best rank
- #584in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,086people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,086 boys have been named Gabe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 126 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gabe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | |
| 1890s | 54 | |
| 1900s | 38 | |
| 1910s | 117 | |
| 1920s | 125 | |
| 1930s | 127 | |
| 1940s | 119 | |
| 1950s | 179 | |
| 1960s | 240 | |
| 1970s | 465 | |
| 1980s | 167 | |
| 1990s | 320 | |
| 2000s | 1,102 | |
| 2010s | 782 | |
| 2020s | 192 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Gabe was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Gabe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeffersonpeak 2009
- Zackpeak 2008
- Simonpeak 2015
- Simeonpeak 2019
- Elishapeak 2008
- Samuelpeak 2001
- Ebenpeak 2012
- Ammonpeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.