Gabby is the English diminutive of Gabrielle — from the Hebrew Gavri'el ("God is my strength"). Gabby Douglas (born Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas, 1995) — American gymnast; at London 2012, at age 16, became the first African American woman to win the Olympic individual all-around title in gymnastics — and the first American gymnast to win team and all-around gold at the same Olympics. Three Olympic gold medals (London 2012 individual all-around + team gold; Rio 2016 team gold). 2012 AP Female Athlete of the Year and Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Her father deployed in Afghanistan during her Olympic run. *Memoirs Grace, Gold, and Glory (2012) and Raising the Bar (2014). Gabby Giffords (born 1970)* — American politician; survived the 2011 Tucson shooting; founded Giffords gun-safety advocacy organization.
Subject of The Gabby Douglas Story (2014 Lifetime film).
Gabby does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gabby reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.