Abiola
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 78.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 183since 1977
Abiola over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
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| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
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| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
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| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abiola! It came in at #6,340, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Abiola
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1977 at #6,340 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 130,852 girls born in 2018 were named Abiola (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,430 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #6,340 in 1977, was only 1 in 170,350 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.1% of all girls named Abiola (57) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2011, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #6,340 (1977) | #6,995 |
| 1980s | 26 | #7,691 (1988) | #9,694 |
| 1990s | 45 | #8,804 (1994) | #10,156 |
| 2000s | 28 | #11,417 (2006) | #13,345 |
| 2010s | 57 | #8,146 (2018) | #13,842 |
| 2020s | 11 | #13,462 (2023) | #14,357 |
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.
Abiola in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 333,612 of them was named Abiola, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,787 names at #10,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.