Ab
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1885 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 380since 1880
Ab over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Ab has never cracked the top 800 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
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| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
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| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
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| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
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| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
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| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
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| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
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| 1885 | #836 | 6 |
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| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
First appearance
1880
In the first year the SSA published name data, Ab was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1884, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ab is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ab in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ab
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1885 at #836 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1880–1887
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,967
- Highest: 1 in 17,967 boys born in 1885 were named Ab (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 64.2% of all boys named Ab (244) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | #836 (1885) | #902 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 20 | #2,926 (1916) | #3,400 |
| 1920s | 18 | #3,517 (1921) | #3,912 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,367 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 24 | #6,100 (1997) | #6,807 |
| 2000s | 244 | #2,868 (2007) | #4,165 |
| 2010s | 24 | #9,655 (2013) | #10,838 |
| 2020s | 18 | #9,554 (2020) | #10,787 |
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.
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