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
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 676 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,154since 1959
Abbigail over time
Rank among girls' names. Abbigail has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,780 | 39 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,852 | 59 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 95 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,528 | 141 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,378 | 163 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,303 | 180 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,132 | 224 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,025 | 261 | — | |
| 2014 | #855 | 322 | — | |
| 2013 | #747 | 364 | — | |
| 2012 | #619 | 462 | — | |
| 2011 | #514 | 570 | — | |
| 2010 | #508 | 590 | — | |
| 2009 | #458 | 676 | — | |
| 2008 | #510 | 608 | — | |
| 2007 | #495 | 653 | — | |
| 2006 | #490 | 631 | — | |
| 2005 | #502 | 601 | — | |
| 2004 | #519 | 553 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #515 | 555 | — | |
| 2002 | #484 | 578 | — | |
| 2001 | #505 | 544 | — | |
| 2000 | #549 | 475 | — | |
| 1999 | #612 | 396 | — | |
| 1998 | #613 | 392 | — | |
| 1997 | #693 | 310 | — | |
| 1996 | #759 | 278 | — | |
| 1995 | #842 | 232 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,115 | 161 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,447 | 111 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,933 | 72 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 63 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2009 at #458 (676 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
- 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%)
- 48.3% of all girls named Abbigail (5,874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 23 | #4,982 (1967) | #6,217 |
| 1970s | 107 | #3,333 (1979) | #6,047 |
| 1980s | 385 | #1,934 (1988) | #2,627 |
| 1990s | 2,113 | #612 (1999) | #1,159 |
| 2000s | 5,874 | #458 (2009) | #503 |
| 2010s | 3,277 | #508 (2010) | #961 |
| 2020s | 370 | #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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 3,321 of them was named Abbigail, which outranked 97.2% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 396,996 of them was named Abbigail, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).