Gable is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Gable in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gable in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Gable by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Gable ranks at #5,400. That means there are 5,399 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gable.
If your name is Gable your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Gable has never ranked higher than position 1,183 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Gable for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1909 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Gable because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gable was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Gable is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 17 times in the entire USA. So a Gable of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Gable, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Iowa. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Gable living in one state or another. (If your name is Gable and you live outside of California and Iowa, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 439,693 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Gable. So if your name is Gable, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Gable already makes you quite special.
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 five letters, the name Gable is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Gable 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 Gable, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Butterfly
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gable
Gable
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
A
B
L
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
L
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. Gable sounds like this:
