Entry № 3485 · English origin

Gable Gable — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAY-buhl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Triangle / God's strength (Clark Gable, King of Hollywood)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "triangle / god's strength (clark gable, king of hollywood)".

Gable is from the Old English gafol (triangle, architectural gable) — also possibly from the Germanic gabel (gift). Eric Gable — multiple American figures. Gable Tostee — Australian celebrity.

Triangle / God's strength.

The name in its native script.

Gable
Transliteration
Gable
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡeɪ.bəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gable stands.

Gable 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.

Gables before her.

Real people
Clark Gable
King of Hollywood Oscar actor.
1901 – 1960
In fiction
Gable
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Gable.

The number behind Gable.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gable reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.