Abb

Last seen for boys in 1946 at #3,525

Peak · boys
1890 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
96
since 1884

Abb over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abb has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #884, 1890boys
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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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1946#3,5255
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1935#3,6455
1934#3,6795
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1928#3,6976
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1926#2,56611
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1923#3,8226
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1921#3,8696
1920#4,2865
1919#3,3917
1918#3,0968
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1916#3,5166
1915#3,8255
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1913#2,8215
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1891#9635
1890#8846
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1884#9715
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First appearance
1884

The first year at least five boys were named Abb! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1889, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Abb
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1946
  • Biggest drop: 79 spots in 1891 (#884#963)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1884
  • Peaked 1890 at #884 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1892, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1890–1891
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,504
  • Highest: 1 in 18,504 boys born in 1890 were named Abb (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,805 boys born in 1946 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 35.4% of all boys named Abb (34) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#971 (1884)#971
1890s11#884 (1890)#924
1900s0
1910s31#2,821 (1913)#3,330
1920s34#2,566 (1926)#3,648
1930s10#3,645 (1935)#3,662
1940s5#3,525 (1946)#3,525

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

Abb in 1920

boys
#4,286
5 births · 1 in 212,871 boys

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #4,286Abb5
More about 1920

boys

1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 212,871 of them was named Abb, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abb
  1. #3,815Zed6
  2. #3,815Zeddie6
  3. #3,815Zenas6
  4. #4,286Abb5
  5. #4,286Aarne5
  6. #4,286Abran5
  7. #4,286Ad5

Tied with 703 names at #4,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. 960Harding#1,351#391
  2. 607Cameron#1,351#744
  3. 566Hardin#1,531#965
  4. 392Laurel#1,321#929
  5. 368Terrence#1,297#929
Fallers
  1. 789Pershing#593#1,382
  2. 580Woodroe#877#1,457
  3. 385Quinten#867#1,252
  4. 383Orvel#890#1,273
  5. 373Rexford#927#1,300

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

See the top 100 for 1920