Aba

Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
Given to girls 84.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1978 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
27
since 1978

Aba over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #8,562, 1978girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2017#15,9025
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2006#12,0555
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1979#9,0106
1978#8,5626
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First appearance
1978

The first year at least five girls were named Aba! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aba
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 1978 at #8,562 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 255,310
  • Highest: 1 in 255,310 girls born in 1978 were named Aba (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 345,292 girls born in 2017 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 44.4% of all girls named Aba (12) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
  • Mostly boys until 2016, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s12#8,562 (1978)#8,786
1980s0
1990s5#14,122 (1998)#14,122
2000s5#15,352 (2001)#15,352
2010s5#15,902 (2017)#15,902

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aba in 1979

girls
#9,010
6 births · 1 in 267,545 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #9,010Aba6
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 267,545 of them was named Aba, which outranked 24.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aba
  1. #8,061Yuko7
  2. #8,061Zenovia7
  3. #8,061Zonia7
  4. #9,010Aba6
  5. #9,010Aarica6
  6. #9,010Abel6
  7. #9,010Abeni6
  8. #10,210Abeer5
  9. #10,210Abria5
  10. #10,210Adah5

Tied with 1,199 names at #9,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,593Breanne#2,125#532
  2. 1,527Loni#2,516#989
  3. 1,287Renata#2,012#725
  4. 985Ashanti#1,862#877
  5. 896Nicolette#1,581#685
Fallers
  1. 392Christel#762#1,154
  2. 312Kenisha#557#869
  3. 297Ariane#887#1,184
  4. 285Imelda#947#1,232
  5. 252Farrah#539#791

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1979