Biel

Meaning

“God is my strength (Catalan short form of Gabriel); Catalonia's #1 boys' name in 2025, and a short form that long ago became a name in its own right”

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Biel has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

Names that fit alongside Biel

Pol Bru Gael Nil Beau Tripp

The Biel deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Biel truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Biel fits with your family’s names and surname.

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