Gabriel is a male name, from Hebrew Gavri’el meaning “God is my strong man” or “God is my strength”. It’s also a surname originating from the given name.
Nicknames: Gabe
Origin: Hebrew
Variants:
- Gavril (Romanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
- Gavrail (Bulgarian)
- Gavri’el (Hebrew)
- Gavriel (Hebrew)
- Gavrel (Yiddish)
- Jabril (Arabic)
- Jibril (Arabic)
- Dzhabrail (Chechen)
- Gabrijel (Croatian, Slovene)
- Gabriël (Dutch)
- Gavriil (Greek, Russian)
- Gábor (Hungarian)
- Gábriel (Hungarian)
- Gabriele (Italian)
- Gabriels (Latvian)
- Gabrielius (Lithuanian)
- Gavrilo (Serbian)
- Cebrail (Turkish)
- Havryil (Ukrainian)
- Kaapo (Finnish)
- Kaapro (Finnish)
Female forms:
- Gabrielle (French, English)
- Gabriella (Italian, Hungarian, Swedish, English)
- Gabriela (Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bulgarian)
- Gabrijela (Croatian)
- Gabriëlle (Dutch)
- Gabriele (German)
- Gabrielė (Lithuanian)
- Gavrila (Romanian)
- Gavriila (Russian)
