Gabryela
Fewer than 800 women in Poland carry this spelling of the name, and most people have never met one. It comes from Hebrew and means "God is my strength".
Gabryela Pronunciation
Gabryela is pronounced gahb-rih-E-lah (/gabrɨˈɛla/).
What Gabryela means
Where Gabryela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gabryela reaches back to Hebrew, to the root behind Gabriel, where the word for a man's strength sits beside El, one of the names for God. This is where the short meaning comes from: god is my strength. The feminine ending settles the name into Polish, next to the variant Gabriela.
In everyday Polish the name softens. A Gabryela becomes Gabrysia at home, or simply Gabi among friends. The masculine forms, Gabryś and Gabriel, share the same Hebrew root, so a family can hold both.
Read a school register in September and Gabriela and Gabryela may sit a line apart, the same name spelled two ways. On imieniny the older sense is the one about strength, less about softness. The meaning that stays is god is my strength.
How many people are named Gabryela
1 in 29899 women in Poland is named Gabryela. 754 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1081 among female names.
Gabryela's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gabryela as a middle name
Gabryela is a first name for 754 women in Poland and a middle name for another 497, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 312th, between Larysa (499) and Klaudyna (496).
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