Gavriil

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Russian: Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God")

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gavriil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 5.5Kas Gavril(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 34Kas Гаврил
  • FIFinland1 in 619K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gavriil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,100 named Гаврил, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 619K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ГаврилCyrillic(measured from records)
GavrilLatin(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Гаврил in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia and 1 more, Gavril in RO Romania, MD Moldova and Гавриил in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God").

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gavriil is read(measured from records)

Gavriil is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Russian35%

    Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God").

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • English20%

    A transliteration of the Russian male given name Гаврии́л (Gavriíl).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Greek14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gavriil in Greek.

  • German7.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gavriil in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gavriil 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.

Where Gavriil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#495≈4,100 est.≈1 in 34K#173Гаврил131
RO Romania#471≈3,900 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Gavril61
MD Moldova#498796as Gavril1 in 4.2K796Gavril11
CN China—≈720 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Гаврил3
BG Bulgaria—≈370 est.≈1 in 19K—Гаврил24
MK North Macedonia—217as Гаврил1 in 9.8K217Гаврил2
FI Finland—91 in 619K40Гавриил1

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: e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gavriil is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi

    Also written Gabriel, Γαβριηλ, Գաբրիել, გაბრიელ, Γαβριήλ

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gavrïil, Gavrii̲l, Gavriïl

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gavrīil

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

800100012001400160018002000Gavril Radomir, b. 970Gavriil Golovkin, b. 1660Gavrila Derzhavin, b. 1743Gavriil Musicescu, b. 1847Gavriil Tikhov, b. 1875Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, b. 1887Gavriil Popov, b. 1904Gavriil Ilizarov, b. 1921Gabriel Urgebadze, b. 1929Gabriel Popov, b. 1936

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Gavriil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—111#906
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#7,674
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#7,643
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—9—

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 does the name Gavriil mean, and where does it come from?
Russianization of Gabriel ("my strength is God"). Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
Is Gavriil a male or female name?
Gavriil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Gavriil?
In the etymology graph, Gabriel, Cebrail and Gábor are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gavriil have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Гаврил in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gavriil most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gavriil is densest in Finland — about 1 in 619 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gavriil?
In Finland, the national register counted 9 people named Gavriil, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
How common is Gavriil compared with other names?
In Russia, Gavriil is the 495th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gavriil” — the 495th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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