Abell

Last seen for girls in 1917 at #4,594 · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #9,823
Given to boys 86.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
1925 · 6 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
31
since 1925

Abell over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917peak #3,741, 1925girlsat peakboys
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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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2025
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2022#9,8237
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2017#12,2465
2016#8,8168
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2009#12,4915
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1925#3,7416
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1917#4,5945
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First appearance
1925

The first year at least five boys were named Abell! It came in at #3,741, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1926–2015, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Abell
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1925
  • Peaked 1925 at #3,741 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1926, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 185,987
  • Highest: 1 in 185,987 boys born in 1925 were named Abell (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 249,430 boys born in 2022 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 41.9% of all boys named Abell (13) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1925
  • Mostly girls until 1924, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s6#3,741 (1925)#3,741
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s5#12,491 (2009)#12,491
2010s13#8,816 (2016)#10,531
2020s7#9,823 (2022)#9,823

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.

Abell in 1917

girls
#4,594
5 births · 1 in 216,253 girls

Top girls' names in 1917

  1. #1Mary64,280
  2. #2Helen34,251
  3. #3Dorothy28,852
  4. #4Margaret25,560
  5. #5Ruth23,568
  6. #6Mildred16,256
  7. #7Anna15,160
  8. #8Elizabeth15,131
  9. #9Frances14,363
  10. #10Virginia14,261
  11. #4,594Abell5
More about 1917

girls

1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 216,253 of them was named Abell, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abell
  1. #4,083Zudora6
  2. #4,083Zulema6
  3. #4,083Zura6
  4. #4,594Abell5
  5. #4,594Aaron5
  6. #4,594Adalaide5
  7. #4,594Adalene5

Tied with 716 names at #4,594; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 549Georgene#1,445#896
  2. 380Ottie#1,332#952
  3. 365Louis#1,298#933
  4. 334Valentine#1,298#964
  5. 322Harold#1,210#888
Fallers
  1. 401Ceola#840#1,241
  2. 373Floretta#964#1,337
  3. 344Buelah#993#1,337
  4. 326Glennie#915#1,241
  5. 290Maye#915#1,205

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

See the top 100 for 1917