Abb

Last seen for boys in 1946 at #3,525

Peak · boys
1890 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
96
since 1884

Abb over time

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Rank among boys' names. Abb has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201921peak #884, 1890boys
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First appearance
1884

The first year at least five boys were named Abb! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1889, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Abb is popular in 1921

No state had 5 or more boys named Abb in 1921, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abb
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1946
  • Biggest drop: 79 spots in 1891 (#884 → #963)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1884
  • Peaked 1890 at #884 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1892, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1890–1891
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,504
  • Highest: 1 in 18,504 boys born in 1890 were named Abb (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,805 boys born in 1946 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 35.4% of all boys named Abb (34) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#971 (1884)#971
1890s11#884 (1890)#924
1900s0——
1910s31#2,821 (1913)#3,330
1920s34#2,566 (1926)#3,648
1930s10#3,645 (1935)#3,662
1940s5#3,525 (1946)#3,525

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.

Abb in 1921

boys
#3,869
6 births · 1 in 183,575 boys

Top boys' names in 1921

  1. #1John58,216
  2. #2Robert52,779
  3. #3William51,862
  4. #4James49,750
  5. #5Charles29,242
  6. #6George27,476
  7. #7Joseph26,182
  8. #8Edward20,817
  9. #9Frank16,705
  10. #10Richard16,376
  11. #3,869Abb6
More about 1921

boys

1,101,449 boys got a published name in 1921; 1 in 183,575 of them was named Abb, which outranked 22.4% of the 4,985 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abb
  1. #3,517Yoshikazu7
  2. #3,517Yoshimi7
  3. #3,517Zebulon7
  4. #3,869Abb6
  5. #3,869Acey6
  6. #3,869Adair6
  7. #3,869Add6
  8. #4,322Abelino5
  9. #4,322Able5
  10. #4,322Ad5

Tied with 452 names at #3,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1920
Risers
  1. ↑ 828Kevin#1,543 → #715
  2. ↑ 499Enrico#1,157 → #658
  3. ↑ 435Richmond#1,225 → #790
  4. ↑ 427Reynaldo#1,252 → #825
  5. ↑ 425Art#1,416 → #991
Fallers
  1. ↓ 391Stacy#835 → #1,226
  2. ↓ 279Gorden#947 → #1,226
  3. ↓ 248Brady#653 → #901
  4. ↓ 246Guillermo#812 → #1,058
  5. ↓ 219Lindsay#903 → #1,122

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

See the top 100 for 1921 →