Gabriel (given name)

Gabriel
	Angel Gabriel
Pronunciation	/ɡeɪbriːəl/; Template:IPA-fr; Template:IPA-es
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	God is my strength or God is my strong man
Other names
Related names	Gabe (nickname), Gabbie, Gabriele, Gabrielle, Gabriela, Gabriella (given name)

Gabriel (Hebrew: גַבְרִיאֵל) is a given name derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "God is my strength" or "God is my strong man". The name was popularized by the association with the archangel Gabriel.

In other languages

Afrikaans: Gabriël
Albanian: Xhebraili, Gabriel, Gavril
Arabic: جِبْريل (Jibrīl) جَبْرائيل (Jabrā'īl) gabr
Azerbaijani: Cəbrayıl
Belarusian: Гаўрыіл (Haŭryil)
Bengali: জিবরাঈল (Jiboraeel), জিব্রাঈল (Jibraeel), জিবরীল (Jiboreel), জিব্রীল (Jibreel), জিব্রাঈল (Zibraeel), জিব্রীল (Jitesh)
Bosnian: Džibril
Bulgarian: Гавраил (Gavrail), Гаврил (Gavril)
Catalan: Gabriel, Biel
Chinese Simplified: 加布里埃尔 (Jiābùlǐ āi ěr)
Chinese Traditional: 加布里埃爾 (Jiābùlǐ āi ěr)
Chinese(HK) Traditional: 加百列 (Gar-Bard-Lid)
Croatian: Gabrijel
Czech: Gabriel
Danish: Gabriel
Dutch: Gabriël
Esperanto: Gabrielo
Ethiopia: ገብርኤል
Finland: Gabriel
French: Gabriel
Galician: Gabriel
Georgian: გაბრიელი (Gabrieli)
German: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriele (feminine), Gabi (feminine nickname)
Greek: Γαβριήλ (Gabriel)
Gujarati: ગેબ્રિયલ (Gēbriyala)
Hebrew language: גַּבְרִיאֵל (Gavri'el, Gavriel)
Hindi: गेब्रियल (Gēbriyala)
Hungarian: Gábriel, Gábor(masculine) ,Gabriella(feminine), Gabi (nickname both feminine and masculine)
Icelandic: Gabríel
Indonesian: Jibril
Irish: Gaibrial, Gaibriéil, Gaibriél
Italian: Gabriele (masculine), Gabriella (feminine)
Japanese: ガブリエル (Gaburieru)
Kannada: ಗೇಬ್ರಿಯಲ್ (Gēbriyal)
Kapampangan: Gabriel
Korean: 가브리엘 (Gabriel)
Kurdish: Cebraîl
Latin: Gabriel
Latvian: Gabriels
Lithuanian: Gabrielius
Macedonian: Гаврил (Gavril)
Maltese: Gabrijel
Norwegian: Gabriel
Persian: جبرئيل (Jebreīl)
Tagalog: Gabriel
Polish: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela (feminine), Gabryś (masculine nickname), Gabrysia (feminine nickname), Gabi (masculine and feminine nickname)
Portuguese: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela, Gabrielle (feminine), Biel (masculine nickname), Gabi (feminine nickname)
Romanian: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela (feminine), Gabi (masculine and feminine nickname), Gavriil, Gavril, Gavrilă
Russian: Гавриил (Gavriil), Гаврил (Gavril), Гаврила (Gavrila); diminutives: Gavrik, Gavryusha
Serbian: Гаврило (Gavrilo); diminutives: Гаша (Gaša), Гавро (Gavro), Гајо (Gajo)
Slovak: Gabriel, Gabo
Somali: Jibriil gabr
Spanish: Gabriel (masculine), Gabriela (feminine), Gabo (masculine nickname), Gaby o Gabi (masculine or feminine nickname).
Swedish: Gabriel
Sylheti: জিব্রাঈল (Zibrail, Jibrail), জিব্রীল (Zibril, Jibril)
Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ (Gebrael or Gabriel)
Tamil: கேப்ரியல் (Kēpriyal)
Telugu: గాబ్రియేల్ (Gābriyēl)
Turkish: Cebrâîl, Cebrail
Ukrainian: Гаврило (Havrylo)
Urdu: جبرائیل
Yiddish: גאַבריעל (Gʼabryʻl)
Welsh: Gabriel

People named Gabriel

Royal houses, nobility and clergy

Gabriel of Kakheti (died 881), Prince and chorepiscopus (bishop) of Kakheti
Gabriel of Melitene (died 1102), ruler of Melitene
Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg (1489–1539)
Gabriel de la Cueva, 5th Duke of Alburquerque (c. 1515–1571)
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery (1530–1574)
Gabriel de Luetz (died 1553)
Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1600–1675)
Gabriel de Guilleragues (1628–1684)
Gabriel of Lencastre, 7th Duke of Aveiro (1667–1745)
Patriarch Gabriel II of Constantinople (died 1659)
Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople (reigned 1702–1707)
César Gabriel de Choiseul (1712–1785)
Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752–1788)
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887–1955)
Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1897–1975)
Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis (1922–1942)
Gabriel (archimandrite) (1929–1995), a Georgian religious figure of the 20th century
Gabriel de Broglie (born 1931)
Prince Gabriel of Belgium (born 2003)
Prince Gabriel of Nassau (born 2006)
Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna (born 2017)

Artists and entertainers

Gabriel Bateman (born 2004), American actor
Gabriel Braga Nunes (born 1972), Brazilian actor
Gabriel Byrne (born 1950), Irish actor
Gabriel Casaccia (1907–1980), Paraguayan novelist
Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969), French writer and novelist
Gabriel Contino (born 1974), stage name Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian singer-songwriter and rapper
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), late-Romantic French composer
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
Gabriel Hernández (singer) (born 1979), singer, member of the band No Mercy
Gabriel Iglesias (born 1976), Mexican-American comedian
Gabriel Macht (born 1972), American actor
Gabriel Morrissette (born 1959), Canadian illustrator
Gabe Saporta (born 1979), Uruguayan-American musician
Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), Austrian painter
Gabriel von Seidl (1848–1913), German architect

Athletes

Gabriel Agbonlahor (born 1986), English footballer
Gabriel Arteaga (born 1976), Cuban judoka
Gabriel Barbosa (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969), Argentine footballer
Gabriel Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball player
Gabriel Davis (born 1999), American football player
Gabriel de Moura (born 1988), Brazilian football defender
Gabriel Deck (born 1995), Argentine basketball player
Gabby Espinas (born 1982), Filipino basketball player
Gabriel Eugénio Souza (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel Favale (born 1967), Argentine football referee
Gabriel Enrique Gómez (1984), Panamanian footballer
Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player
Gabriel Gonzaga (born 1979), Brazilian jiu-jitsu and UFC fighter
Gabriel Hamer-Webb (born 2000), English rugby union player
Gabriel Heinze (born 1978), Argentine footballer
Gabriel Hernández (disambiguation), several athletes with one exception
Gabriel Hernández (boxer) (1973–2001), Dominican Republic boxer
Gabriel Jesus (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel "Gabe" Kapler (born 1975), American major league baseball outfielder and manager
Gabriel Landeskog (born 1992), Swedish ice hockey player
Gabriel Lundberg (born 1994), Danish basketball player
Gabriel Milito (born 1980), Argentine footballer
Gabriel Mendoza (born 1968), Chilean footballer
Gabriel Minadeo (born 1967), Argentine field hockey player and coach
Gabriel Monteiro Vasconcelos (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel Morency (born 1970), Canadian sports broadcaster
Gabe Norwood (born 1985), Filipino basketball player
Gabriel Obertan (born 1989), French footballer
Gabriel Olaseni (born 1992), British basketball player
Gabriel Paulista (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel Popescu (born 1973), French footballer
Gabriel Reis (born 1984), Brazilian water polo player
Gabriel Varga (born 1985), Canadian kick boxer
Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
Gabriel José Ferreira Mesquita (born 1998), Brazilian footballer

Other

Gabriel Al-Salem (1967–2010), American businessman and author
Gabriel Aubry (born 1975), Canadian model
Gabriel García Marquez, Literature Nobel
Gabriel Kaplan (born 1944), American comedian and poker player
Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher
Gabriel Smith (1776–1800), leader of a slave rebellion in the United States
Gabriel I. H. Williams, Liberian journalist
Gabriel Weston (born 1970), English female surgeon, author and television presenter
Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918), Bosnian assassin of Archduke Ferdinand, reputed to have started World War One.

Fictional characters

Gabriel the Warrior, one of the main characters in Minecraft Story Mode
Gabriel Oak, one of the protagonists from Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd
The title character of Gabriel Knight, a PC game series
Gabriel, the protagonist of the video game Fable: The Journey
Gabriel Angelos, one of the main characters in the video game series Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Gabriel Logan, the protagonist of the video game series Syphon Filter
Gabriel Rorke, the antagonist of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
Gabriel Santoro, of the novel Third and Indiana
Gabriel Summers, a Marvel Comics villain better known as Vulcan
Gabriel, a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
Gabriel, the actual name of Halloween, protagonist of the novel Idlewild by Nick Sagan
Gabriel Vaughn, the protagonist of the 2014 TV series Intelligence
Gabriel Van Helsing, the protagonist of the 2004 film Van Helsing
Gabriel Belmont, the protagonist of the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its two sequels
Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan, one of the main characters in the Disney series Good Luck Charlie
Gabriel Gray, the real name of the character Sylar, from the television series Heroes
Gabriel Birid, the protagonist of the series Gabriel's Fire which was later revamped as Pros and Cons
Gabriel 'Gabe' Jones, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics, and a member of the Howling Commandos
Gabriel Stokes, a fictional character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and the television series of the same name
Gabriel Allon, an Israeli Mossad agent, who is the main protagonist of a series of books by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Santiago, a fictional character in the Android: Netrunner universe
Gabriel Ashlocke, the main antagonist of the second series of Mutant X
Gabriel Cohuelo, also known as Velocidad
Gabriel Churchkitten, a fictional cat in the novels by Margot Austin
Gabriel, a crime lord, and the recurring antagonist in the third season of the 1987 TV series Beauty and the Beast
Gabe Lewis, one of the supporting characters from The Office
Gabriel Reyes, a playable character in the video game, Overwatch, under the alias, "Reaper".
Gabriel "Gabe" Goodman, a character in the Broadway musical Next to Normal
Gabriel Agreste, a character in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, being the father of male protagonist Adrien Agreste
Gabriel Boutin, a character in Sally Green's trilogy Half Bad
Gabriel Tenma White, a character from Gabriel Dropout
Gabriel Winterborne, a character from "Winterborne home for vengeance and valour"