Abiel
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #1,688 for boys in 2025, 97 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 119 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,617since 1971
Abiel over time
Rank among boys' names. Abiel has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #1,688 | 97 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,503 | 119 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,805 | 45 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,121 | 38 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,925 | 40 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,421 | 55 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,385 | 55 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,065 | 67 |
| 2016 | — | #2,167 | 63 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,019 | 71 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,492 | 50 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,065 | 65 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 2011 | — | #2,590 | 47 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,429 | 51 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,528 | 50 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #2,281 | 57 |
| 2006 | — | #2,398 | 51 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,158 | 31 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,351 | 21 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,670 | 26 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abiel! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Abiel
- 185 spots since 2024 (#1,503 → #1,688)
- 1,237 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #1,688)
- 331 spots since 2015 (#2,019 → #1,688)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2024 at #1,503 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,478 boys born in 2024 were named Abiel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,609 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.7% of all boys named Abiel (577) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 39 | #4,403 (1979) | #5,089 |
| 1980s | 81 | #3,882 (1986) | #4,908 |
| 1990s | 189 | #2,670 (1992) | #3,707 |
| 2000s | 349 | #2,281 (2007) | #3,167 |
| 2010s | 577 | #2,019 (2015) | #2,301 |
| 2020s | 382 | #1,503 (2024) | #2,494 |
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.
Abiel in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 33,021 of them was named Abiel, which outranked 83.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,355Tyron56
- #2,355Zac56
- #2,355Zyir56
- #2,385Abiel55
- #2,385Abhinav55
- #2,385Arhaan55
- #2,385Arlen55
- #2,417Aaiden54
- #2,417Abbott54
- #2,417Brad54
Tied with 31 names at #2,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.