Abi
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 96.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 632since 1973
Abi over time
Rank among girls' names. Abi has never cracked the top 4,000 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 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
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| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abi! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Abi
- 3,290 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #9,457)
- 1,488 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #9,457)
- 2,736 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1981 at #4,963 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 65,630 girls born in 2016 were named Abi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,963 in 1981, was only 1 in 119,147 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all girls named Abi (185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #7,649 (1978) | #8,592 |
| 1980s | 69 | #4,963 (1981) | #7,712 |
| 1990s | 91 | #5,010 (1997) | #8,830 |
| 2000s | 180 | #5,377 (2007) | #6,883 |
| 2010s | 185 | #4,990 (2016) | #6,744 |
| 2020s | 84 | #6,167 (2024) | #7,755 |
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.
Abi in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 92,687 of them was named Abi, which outranked 66.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,341Zianna20
- #6,341Zoila20
- #6,341Zunairah20
- #6,576Abi19
- #6,576Aarika19
- #6,576Abrie19
- #6,576Adaeze19
- #6,872Aariona18
- #6,872Abbygayle18
- #6,872Abcde18
Tied with 295 names at #6,576; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 379,389 of them was named Abi, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.