Avigail

#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births

Peak · girls
2016 · 116 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,217
since 1968

Avigail over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Avigail has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #1,785, 2016girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,11788
2024#2,49172
2023#2,49471
2022#2,55469
2021#2,26681
2020#1,99194
2019#2,42873
2018#2,21783
2017#1,876108
2016#1,785116
2015#1,984100
2014#2,21385
2013#2,09691
2012#3,04055
2011#2,72564
2010#2,69166
2009#2,28685
2008#3,01757
2007#2,39479
2006#2,60269
2005#2,90256
2004#3,07150
2003#3,13147
2002#3,14645
2001#3,09145
2000#2,94048
1999#3,71832
1998#3,35336
1997#5,01020
1996#3,42933
1995#4,67721
1994#3,61530
1993#4,10025
1992#6,65213
1991#4,49722
1990#7,88010
1989#6,95511
1988#9,2447
1987#8,7787
1986#5,75712
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1983#7,3128
1982#10,5175
1981#9,1106
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1973#7,4356
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Avigail! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Avigail is popular in 1968

No state had 5 or more girls named Avigail in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Avigail
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 374 spots since 2024 (#2,491 → #2,117)
  • 126 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #2,117)
  • 133 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #2,117)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 2016 at #1,785 (116 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,276
  • Highest: 1 in 15,276 girls born in 2016 were named Avigail (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 37.9% of all girls named Avigail (841) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s17#7,435 (1973)#8,218
1980s56#5,757 (1986)#8,239
1990s242#3,353 (1998)#4,693
2000s581#2,286 (2009)#2,858
2010s841#1,785 (2016)#2,306
2020s475#1,991 (2020)#2,319

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.

Avigail in 1968

girls
#7,016
5 births · 1 in 328,078 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #7,016Avigail5
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 328,078 of them was named Avigail, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Avigail
  1. #6,246Zipporah6
  2. #6,246Zonia6
  3. #6,246Zonya6
  4. #7,016Avigail5
  5. #7,016Abelina5
  6. #7,016Adah5
  7. #7,016Adaline5

Tied with 1,182 names at #7,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,132Coretta#3,656 → #524
  2. ↑ 1,257Tamika#1,980 → #723
  3. ↑ 1,150Tamiko#1,702 → #552
  4. ↑ 607Chantel#1,348 → #741
  5. ↑ 490Chantal#1,441 → #951
Fallers
  1. ↓ 602Wende#857 → #1,459
  2. ↓ 545Zina#959 → #1,504
  3. ↓ 341Evonne#970 → #1,311
  4. ↓ 294Portia#902 → #1,196
  5. ↓ 285Mariann#973 → #1,258

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

See the top 100 for 1968 →