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Gabriella

The Italian form of a Hebrew name meaning "god is my strength". It clings to the bottom of Poland's top 1,000 girls' names: most Poles have never actually met a Gabriella.

Gabriella Pronunciation

Gabriella is pronounced gahbr-YEL-lah (/gabrˈjɛlla/).

Alive in 2025
1,310
Newborns 2025
23
National rank
#849

What Gabriella means

Where Gabriella comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Gabriella grows from a Hebrew root. Behind it stands Gabriel, the archangel whose name joins gever, a word for man and strength, to El, one of the names of God. The short meaning usually given is "God is my strength," while Polish leans toward boży wojownik, a warrior of God. The feminine ending belongs to Italy, where Gabriella spread widely from Tuscany down through the south.

In Poland the name settled mainly as Gabriela. Everyday speech then wore it down. A Gabriela turns into Gabrysia among friends, and sometimes Gabryś, the same short form a boy named Gabriel might answer to. Open a school class register and you may see Gabriela written in full while the teacher calls out Gabrysia.

The masculine Gabriel walks beside her, older and sharing the same root. He carries the archangel of the Annunciation; she carries the ending that made the name her own. Both hold the meaning at the base: God is my strength.

How many people are named Gabriella

1 in 17209 women in Poland is named Gabriella. 1,310 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #849 among female names.

People with the name Gabriella 2019 → 2025
1,310 +473 since 2019
2020 879 +42
2021 939 +60
2022 1,032 +93
2023 1,131 +99
2024 1,217 +86
2025 1,310 +93

Gabriella's popularity over time

23 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #488 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.

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23 newborns with the name Gabriella in 2025
national rank #488 that year

Where Gabriella is most popular

Gabriella is most popular in Lower Silesian, 86% above the national average (17 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+83%) and Greater Poland (+75%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 72% and 67% below average respectively.

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Gabriella as a middle name

Gabriella is a first name for 1,310 women in Poland and a middle name for another 238, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 440th, between Waleska (239) and Adamina (237).

As a first name
1,310
As a middle name
238
first name 85% middle name 15%
Middle-name ranking women

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