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The GABRIEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,013 1482 0.008 82
United States (1880 census) 1,902 3107 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +20111 +1625 +0.004 +44
Other Countries
Australia 956 1727 0.006 58
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GABRIEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,894 1125 0.009 85
New York 1,806 990 0.010 95
Florida 1,703 1218 0.011 107
Texas 1,487 1656 0.007 71
Pennsylvania 1,158 1226 0.009 94
Top States for GABRIEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 214 423 0.018 177
Louisiana 710 925 0.016 159
Connecticut 414 982 0.012 122
New Jersey 1,021 844 0.012 121
Oregon 415 980 0.012 121

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GABRIEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GABRIEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GABRIEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GABRIEL by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GABRIEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GABRIEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GABRIEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GABRIEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 632 2.87
Native American/Alaskan 112 0.51
White (Caucasian) 13,302 60.43
Black/African American 3,813 17.32
White (Hispanic) 2,505 11.38
Asian/Pacific 1,649 7.49

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GABRIEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GABRIEL in historical publications

GABRIEL. A personal name borrowed from the celestial hierarchy,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GABRIEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GABRIEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GABRIEL

The following words are slight variants of GABRIEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.