Abilene
#2,064 for girls in 2025, 91 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 102 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,674since 1964
Abilene over time
Rank among girls' names. Abilene 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,064 | 91 |
| 2024 | #1,942 | 102 |
| 2023 | #2,195 | 86 |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 |
| 2017 | #2,160 | 88 |
| 2016 | #2,084 | 94 |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #2,903 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abilene! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Abilene
- 122 spots since 2024 (#1,942 → #2,064)
- 826 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #2,064)
- 526 spots since 2015 (#2,590 → #2,064)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2024 at #1,942 (102 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,884 girls born in 2024 were named Abilene (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,662 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.0% of all girls named Abilene (670) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,767 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 33 | #5,321 (1988) | #7,018 |
| 1990s | 174 | #4,370 (1997) | #5,693 |
| 2000s | 327 | #3,800 (2009) | #4,278 |
| 2010s | 670 | #2,084 (2016) | #2,704 |
| 2020s | 465 | #1,942 (2024) | #2,398 |
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.
Abilene in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
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1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 167,596 of them was named Abilene, which outranked 52.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,531Yoko12
- #6,531Yu12
- #6,531Zandria12
- #6,955Abilene11
- #6,955Aasha11
- #6,955Abbygail11
- #6,955Abeni11
- #7,449Aaren10
- #7,449Addy10
- #7,449Adella10
Tied with 493 names at #6,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.