A baptismal name for a boy
Gabriel
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Gabriel
Saint GabrielNovember 8The Archangel who announced to the Virgin Mary the Incarnation of the Son of God.
Fool-for-Christ Gabriel of GeorgiaOctober 20Georgian monk, a fool for Christ, who died in 1995, honored for his humility and ascetic labor.
Martyr Gabriel of ZabłudówApril 20Child born in 1684 and dead in 1690, honored as a martyr in the Orthodox Church in Poland and Belarus.
Venerable Gabriel of LesnovoJanuary 15Hermit of the eleventh century, companion of Joachim of Osogovo, John of Rila and Prochorus of Pčinja.- Hieromartyr Gabriel II of ConstantinopleDecember 3Ecumenical Patriarch for a week in 1657, hanged by the Ottomans in 1659 for baptizing a convert from Islam and keeping his faith.
Hieromartyr Gabriel I of PećDecember 13Patriarch of Peć from 1648 to 1655, killed by the Ottomans; commemorated on December 13.
Venerable Gabriel the IberianMay 13Georgian monk of Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos in the tenth century, venerated as a saint.
Saint Gabriel Bănulescu-BodoniOctober 1Metropolitan of Moldavia, Kherson and Kiev, exarch of Moldo-Wallachia, later archbishop of Chișinău.
Saint Gabriel the AthoniteJuly 12Monk and ascetic on Mount Athos, later a bishop; canonized by the Macedonian Orthodox Church in 2017.
Venerable Gabriel of AthosJuly 9Archimandrite born in the Kyiv governorate, abbot of the Skete of Saint Elias on Athos, who died in 1901.- Hieromartyr Gabriel MaslennikovNovember 5Priest born in 1871 at Mikhaylov in the Ryazan region, who died in Ryazan on 18 November 1937.
- Hieromartyr Gabriel ProtopopovMay 19Priest born in 1880, who died in Kharkiv in 1938; a local saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Questions
The name day of Gabriel is November 8, the feast of Saint Gabriel. It is also kept on October 20, April 20, January 15, December 3, December 13, May 13, October 1, July 12.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Gabriel, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Gabriel is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Saint Gabriel as patron.