Abbigail

#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2009 · 676 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
12,154
since 1959

Abbigail over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abbigail has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #458, 2009girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,78039
2024#3,96337
2023#2,85259
2022#2,55469
2021#2,48471
2020#1,97795
2019#1,528141
2018#1,378163
2017#1,303180
2016#1,132224
2015#1,025261
2014#855322
2013#747364
2012#619462
2011#514570
2010#508590
2009#458676
2008#510608
2007#495653
2006#490631
2005#502601
2004#519553#11,3565
2003#515555
2002#484578
2001#505544
2000#549475
1999#612396
1998#613392
1997#693310
1996#759278
1995#842232
1994#1,115161
1993#1,447111
1992#1,87675
1991#1,93372
1990#1,70186
1989#2,19455
1988#1,93463
1987#2,65737
1986#2,42041
1985#2,65736
1984#2,85131
1983#2,78331
1982#3,17227
1981#2,65734
1980#2,94030
1979#3,33324
1978#3,38822
1977#5,88810
1976#7,2967
1975#5,51610
1974#8,7755
1973#8,4235
1972#5,4809
1971#6,0068
1970#6,3627
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1964#6,7675
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First appearance
1959

The first year at least five girls were named Abbigail! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1959–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Abbigail
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 183 spots since 2024 (#3,963#3,780)
  • 1,803 spots since 2020 (#1,977#3,780)
  • 2,755 spots since 2015 (#1,025#3,780)
  • Biggest jump: 273 spots in 1995 (#1,115#842)
  • Biggest drop: 170 spots in 2015 (#855#1,025)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 2009 at #458 (676 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,718
  • Highest: 1 in 2,718 girls born in 2009 were named Abbigail (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.3% of all girls named Abbigail (5,874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,245 (1959)#6,245
1960s23#4,982 (1967)#6,217
1970s107#3,333 (1979)#6,047
1980s385#1,934 (1988)#2,627
1990s2,113#612 (1999)#1,159
2000s5,874#458 (2009)#503
2010s3,277#508 (2010)#961
2020s370#1,977 (2020)#2,935

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.

Abbigail in 1981

girls
#2,657
34 births · 1 in 49,061 girls

Top girls' names in 1981

  1. #1Jennifer57,046
  2. #2Jessica42,531
  3. #3Amanda34,372
  4. #4Sarah28,175
  5. #5Melissa28,005
  6. #6Amy20,345
  7. #7Nicole20,310
  8. #8Stephanie20,212
  9. #9Elizabeth20,168
  10. #10Heather17,946
  11. #2,657Abbigail34
More about 1981

girls

1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 49,061 of them was named Abbigail, which outranked 78.2% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbigail
  1. #2,614Tyeshia35
  2. #2,614Vita35
  3. #2,614Zenaida35
  4. #2,657Abbigail34
  5. #2,657Adelle34
  6. #2,657Amberlee34
  7. #2,657Anamaria34
  8. #2,723Alva33
  9. #2,723Aminah33
  10. #2,723Andera33

Tied with 65 names at #2,657; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 3,850Tashina#4,743#893
  2. 2,742Krystle#3,215#473
  3. 1,800Tierra#2,342#542
  4. 1,398Martine#2,189#791
  5. 999Nereida#1,981#982
Fallers
  1. 764Kylene#990#1,754
  2. 607Renada#708#1,315
  3. 560Ashanti#822#1,382
  4. 399Renata#336#735
  5. 395Tracee#959#1,354

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

See the top 100 for 1981