Gabriel (given name)
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| Pronunciation | English: /ˈɡeɪbriəl/ GAY-bree-əl French: [ɡabʁijɛl] Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel] |
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| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew גַבְרִיאֵל |
| Meaning | 'God is my strength' |
Gabriel is a given name derived from the Hebrew name Gaḇrīʾēl (גַבְרִיאֵל) meaning "God is my strength" or "God is my (strong) man". The name was popularized by the association with the archangel Gabriel.
Variants[]
| Language | Name variant | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Gabriel | ||
| Albanian | Gabriel | ||
| Albanian | Gavin | ||
| Amharic | Gäbrəʾel (ገብርኤል) | ||
| Arabic | Jibrā'īl (جَبْرائيل) | ||
| Arabic | Jebreel (جِبْريل)yr | ||
| Armenian | Gabriel (Գաբրիել) | ||
| Armenian | Gabriella (Գաբրիելա) | feminine | |
| Azerbaijani | Charbray | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| Serbian | Gavrilo | ||
| Slovak | Gabriel | ||
| Somali | Jibriil | ||
| 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) |
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 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), French 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[]
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- Gabriel the Warrior, one of the main characters in Minecraft Story Mode
- Gabriel Oak, one of the protagonists from Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd
- The title character of Gabriel Knight, a PC game series
- Gabriel, the protagonist of the video game Fable: The Journey
- Gabriel Angelos, one of the main characters in the video game series Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
- Gabriel Logan, the protagonist of the video game series Syphon Filter
- Gabriel Rorke, the antagonist of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Gabriel Santoro, of the novel Third and Indiana
- Gabriel Summers, a Marvel Comics villain better known as Vulcan
- Gabriel, a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
- Gabriel Vaughn, the protagonist of the 2014 TV series Intelligence
- Gabriel Van Helsing, the protagonist of the 2004 film Van Helsing
- Gabriel Belmont, the protagonist of the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its two sequels
- Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan, one of the main characters in the Disney series Good Luck Charlie
- Gabriel Gray, the real name of the character Sylar, from the television series Heroes
- Gabriel Birid, the protagonist of the series Gabriel's Fire which was later revamped as Pros and Cons
- Gabriel 'Gabe' Jones, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics, and a member of the Howling Commandos
- Gabriel Stokes, a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and the television series of the same name
- Gabriel Allon, an Israeli Mossad agent, who is the main protagonist of a series of books by Daniel Silva
- Gabriel Santiago, a fictional character in the Android: Netrunner universe
- Gabriel Ashlocke, the main antagonist of the second series of Mutant X
- Gabriel Cohuelo, also known as Velocidad
- Gabriel Churchkitten, a fictional cat in the novels by Margot Austin
- Gabriel, a crime lord, and the recurring antagonist in the third season of the 1987 TV series Beauty and the Beast
- Gabe Lewis, one of the supporting characters from The Office
- Gabriel Reyes, a playable character in the video game, Overwatch, under the alias, "Reaper".
- Gabriel "Gabe" Goodman, a character in the Broadway musical Next to Normal
- Gabriel Agreste, the main antagonist in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and father of Adrien Agreste.
- Gabriel Boutin, a character in Sally Green's trilogy Half Bad.
- Gabriel Tenma White, a character from Gabriel Dropout
- Gabriel, one of the missing children from Five Nights at Freddy's
- Gabriel May, the female protagonist's evil parasitic twin in James Wan's 2021 supernatural horror movie Malignant
References[]
See also[]
- All pages with titles beginning with Gabriel
- Gabriela (disambiguation)
- Gabriella (disambiguation)
- Gibril (disambiguation)
- Jibril (disambiguation)
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