Gabe is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Gabe is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Gabe. In the SmartGenius ranking, Gabe is #1,963 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gabe.
Gabe is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1987, where the name Gabe was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Gabe and were born in the USA in 1987, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Gabe even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1880, it ranked on position 522 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gabe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Gabe has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 35 times and thus landed on position 2,936 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 35 boys with the name Gabe, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
You may not know anyone named Gabe, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Gabe. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Gabe living in one state or another. If your name is Gabe and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Gabe relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,895 men and boys their names before you hear Gabe as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Gabe is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Gabe and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gabe, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gabe
Gabe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
A
B
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
A
B
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gabe sounds like this:
