Gabriels
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɣɑbrils/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Gabriels is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 30Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gabriels counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Gabriels | 41 |
| BE Belgium | 1,620 | 1 in 7.2K | 1.6K | Gabriels | 60 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Gabriels | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | 426 | 1 in 41K | 426 | Gabriels | 40 |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 110 | Gabriels | 101 |
| SE Sweden | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gabriels is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henry Gabrielsb. 1838BERoman Catholic bishop (1838–1921)
- Eugène Gabrielsb. 1895BEBelgian rower (1895-1969)
- Jef Gabrielsb. 1947BEBelgian politician
- Katleen Gabrielsb. 1983BEphilosopher from Belgium
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.6K | #678 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.5K | #728 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 296 | #6,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 110 | #149,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,625 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Gabriels?
- In the etymology graph, Gavrel, Kaapro and Gábriel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gabriels?
- In Dutch /ɣɑbrils/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gabriels have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Gabriels in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gabriels.
- Where is Gabriels most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gabriels is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gabriels?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,620 people named Gabriels in 2008, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gabriels?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gabrielsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gabriels”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.