Gable for a boy?

[CeCeBloomer]

Any thoughts

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

It's part of a house isn't it?

Not my cup of tea, I imagine it would be misheard as Gabriel a fair bit too.

[HillaryFTW]

Do you mean Gabe?

[BeattieBowRisenFromTheDead]

Sorry, not keen. I first think of the house (like Green Gables) and then "As in Clark?"

Also agree it sounds like someone mumbling 'Gabriel'.

[Loyly]

My first thought was 'gable end' as in house. To me, it isn't good as a name.

[OlennasWimple]

No, it's not a name! Gabriel, however, is lovely

[DramaAlpaca]

I don't think it works, sorry.

I guess you are thinking of it as a surname name, as in Clark Gable, but as others have said it just sounds like a mish-mash of Gabriel and Gabe.

[SimonLeBonOnAndOn]

Terrible.

[NewIdeasToday]

I really really don't understand this apparent trend to give babies names that aren't actually names for people.

[MollyRedskirts]

Sorry, no. It immediately makes me think of part of a house. It would be a bit like calling a baby 'Gate' or 'Guttering'.

Gabe or Gabriel are both lovely, and similar sounding.

[ShatnersBassoon]

Abel is a reasonable non-triangular name.

[RiverTam]

I don't mind 'non-name' names at all but I don't think this one works at all.

[Heratnumber7]

No. plain and simple. No.

[BeattieBowRisenFromTheDead]

Molly I knew someone called 'Gates'

[FinnegansCake]

Awful, sorry!

People would mis-spell it as Gabble

[Allalonenow]

I like it, and Newel is nice too.

[MollyRedskirts]

Ha! It was an example plucked out of the air. My apologies if I offended you.

[SailingThroughTime]

Not my cup of tea but it started me pondering whether Architrave would be for boys, girls or a unisex name (in the manner of Rothmans being a boy's name). Wainscott would be a boy's name. Cornice is a gigl's name obviously.
Ponders ...

[BeattieBowRisenFromTheDead]

No, sorry, my was at his name not at your joke

[BeattieBowRisenFromTheDead]

Arf at Cornice

Dado also clearly a girls' name.

[SailingThroughTime]

Girl's not gigl's

[IcedVanillaLatte]

I think Finial is a lovely name.

[Catgirl83]

Agree. Gable isn't a name. Gabriel, on the other hand, is lovely.

[HillaryFTW]

Lintel? A nice alternative to Linnet.

[SailingThroughTime]

Spindle is a bit too like Spinster for my taste but hey ho - horses for courses and all that.
Mansard is a strong 4 square name for a boy.

[Lunar1]

How do you say it? To rhyme with babble or Mable?