Gabriela
Meaning of Gabriela
Gabriela steps onto the tongue like a sun-warmed melody, her roots stretching back to the Hebrew “Gavriʾel,” the rallying cry that proclaims, “God is my strength,” yet she has long since danced across Iberian courtyards and Italian piazzas, gathering lilting vowels and a rose-petal cadence—gah-bree-EL-uh to English ears, gah-BREE-lah beneath Spanish balconies, gah-BRYE-lah among the Venetian canals. She carries the silver trumpet of the Archangel Gabriel, patron of glad tidings, but dresses it in silken Latin flair, equal parts flamenco swirl and cathedral hush. In the United States she once blazed like a comet, breaking into the Top 120 at the dawn of this century and, though she now settles comfortably around the 270s, her glow remains steady—proof that parents still reach for names that promise both steadfast shelter and spirited adventure. With a wink of light humor, one might say Gabriela is the espresso of girl names: rich, aromatic, and impossible to forget, leaving the heart just a beat faster and the world a shade brighter.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as gah-bree-EL-uh (/ɡɐbriˌɛlə/)
Spanish
- Pronunced as gah-BREE-lah (/gaˈbɾjela/)
Italian
- Pronunced as gah-BRYE-lah (/gaˈbriːla/)
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Notable People Named Gabriela
| Gabriela Hearst is a Uruguayan luxury womenswear and accessories designer who designs her namesake label and runs her family ranch in Uruguay. |
| Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, celebrated for lyrical poems on love, nature, motherhood, sorrow, and Latin American identity. |
| Gabriela Sabatini is an Argentine former tennis star who reached world number three in singles and doubles and won 41 titles from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. |
| Gabriela Lena Frank is an American pianist and contemporary classical composer. |
| Gabriela Basařová - Gabriela Basarova was a Czech fermentation chemist and professor whose pioneering research on beer haze yielded over 500 publications and earned the 2012 State Medal of Merit. |
| Gabriela Dudeková - Gabriela Dudekova is a historian from Slovakia. |
| Gabriela Firea is a Romanian journalist and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest from 2016 to 2020. |
| Gabriela Mosquera - Gabriela M. Mosquera is an American Democratic politician who served New Jersey’s 4th Legislative District in the General Assembly from 2012 to 2024. |
| Gabriela Rodríguez - Gabriela Rodriguez is a London-based Venezuelan film producer who became the first Latin American woman nominated for a Best Picture Oscar for Roma and won two BAFTAs and a British Independent Film Award. |
| Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan pianist famed for real time improvisations on audience themes and for performing standard classical repertoire. |
| Gabriela Soto Laveaga is a historian of science specializing in Latin America and a professor at Harvard University. |
| Gabriela Andrea Knutson is a Czech tennis player born in the United States. |
| Gabriela Cuevas Barron is a Mexican politician who served as President of the Inter Parliamentary Union from 2017 to 2020 and as a plurinominal senator from 2012 to 2018. |
| Gabriela Andersen-Schiess - Gabriela Gaby Andersen Schiess is a Swiss former long distance runner who represented Switzerland in the first womens Olympic marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles Games while living in Sun Valley Idaho as a ski instructor. |
| Argentine boxer Gabriela Celeste Alaniz is a former unified female flyweight world champion who held the WBA, WBC, WBO and The Ring titles. |
