A woman in my class at college named her son
Gabrielle. She said she decided to spell
Gabriel as
Gabrielle, because she wanted a girl so badly, and that would've been the baby's name, had it been a girl.
Yikes! That poor boy. Not only is he living with a girl's name, but now he knows that his Mom wanted a girl so badly, that she used the feminine spelling, instead of
Gabriel!
I like both names, but only used on their respective genders.