Abbott

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
#909
1880 · 5 births
Debut · boys
1880
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,296
since 1880

Abbott over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abbott has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926peak #909, 1880boys
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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—#3,94927
2024—#3,69330
2023—#3,17738
2022—#3,46433
2021—#3,12138
2020—#3,20235
2019—#2,76645
2018—#2,41754
2017—#2,24059
2016—#2,25559
2015#14,4826#2,68445
2014#11,9318#2,58247
2013—#2,36453
2012#16,8695#2,95439
2011—#3,04637
2010—#3,23934
2009—#4,92219
2008—#5,06718
2007—#5,66115
2006—#6,09413
2005#16,4625#5,27815
2004—#7,5369
2003—#8,6437
2002—#7,0559
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2000—#10,3495
1999—#7,8747
1998—#9,6315
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1994—#8,8005
1993—#7,6386
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1990—#7,1786
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1988—#7,2705
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1984—#6,3155
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1970—#4,2306
1969—#4,4045
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1965—#2,9828
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1963—#4,0485
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1960—#3,6656
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1957—#3,2577
1956—#3,5356
1955—#3,8865
1954—#2,44911
1953—#3,1437
1952—#3,7345
1951—#3,0667
1950—#2,5809
1949—#2,8028
1948—#3,6685
1947—#2,49810
1946—#3,5255
1945—#2,24210
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1943—#3,5385
1942—#2,04213
1941—#2,8727
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1939—#3,1136
1938—#2,6468
1937—#2,6808
1936—#2,8547
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1934—#2,39310
1933—#2,36810
1932—#2,46510
1931—#2,47110
1930—#4,0015
1929—#2,9808
1928—#3,6976
1927—#2,19314
1926—#2,43612
1925—#3,4087
1924—#2,82210
1923—#2,02016
1922—#2,48612
1921—#1,90418
1920—#1,64222
1919—#3,1158
1918—#1,64821
1917—#2,28012
1916—#1,84916
1915—#1,66018
1914—#1,77213
1913—#2,8215
1912—#1,8858
1911—#1,2908
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Abbott was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1880–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Abbott
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 256 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #3,949)
  • 747 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #3,949)
  • 1,265 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #3,949)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1888
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,142
  • Highest: 1 in 20,142 boys born in 1888 were named Abbott (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #909 in 1880, was only 1 in 22,098 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Abbott (472) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s11#909 (1880)#913
1890s0——
1900s5#1,440 (1909)#1,440
1910s109#1,290 (1911)#2,036
1920s125#1,642 (1920)#2,559
1930s74#2,368 (1933)#2,777
1940s63#2,042 (1942)#2,898
1950s57#2,449 (1954)#3,206
1960s24#2,982 (1965)#3,775
1970s6#4,230 (1970)#4,230
1980s10#6,315 (1984)#6,793
1990s29#7,178 (1990)#8,224
2000s110#4,922 (2009)#6,734
2010s472#2,240 (2017)#2,655
2020s201#3,121 (2021)#3,434

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.

Abbott in 1926

boys
#2,436
12 births · 1 in 92,542 boys

Top boys' names in 1926

  1. #1Robert61,130
  2. #2John56,108
  3. #3James53,196
  4. #4William51,922
  5. #5Charles29,521
  6. #6George25,910
  7. #7Richard25,143
  8. #8Joseph23,756
  9. #9Donald20,912
  10. #10Edward19,375
  11. #2,436Abbott12
More about 1926

boys

1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 92,542 of them was named Abbott, which outranked 49.6% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbott
  1. #2,302Yasuo13
  2. #2,302Ygnacio13
  3. #2,302Yoshiaki13
  4. #2,436Abbott12
  5. #2,436Albertus12
  6. #2,436Alven12
  7. #2,436Alvester12
  8. #2,566Abb11
  9. #2,566Achille11
  10. #2,566Achilles11

Tied with 129 names at #2,436; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 477Jonnie#1,332 → #855
  2. ↑ 433Jorge#1,425 → #992
  3. ↑ 410Faustino#1,390 → #980
  4. ↑ 404Adelbert#1,246 → #842
  5. ↑ 381Cameron#1,164 → #783
Fallers
  1. ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
  2. ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
  3. ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
  4. ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
  5. ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124

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

See the top 100 for 1926 →