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

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926peak #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 1926

No state had 5 or more boys named Abb in 1926, 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 1926

boys
#2,566
11 births · 1 in 100,955 boys

Top boys' names in 1926

  1. #1Robert61,130
  2. #2John56,108
  3. #3James53,196
  4. #4William51,922
  5. #5Charles29,521
  6. #6George25,910
  7. #7Richard25,143
  8. #8Joseph23,756
  9. #9Donald20,912
  10. #10Edward19,375
  11. #2,566Abb11
More about 1926

boys

1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 100,955 of them was named Abb, which outranked 47.0% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abb
  1. #2,436Woodroe12
  2. #2,436Yoshito12
  3. #2,436Zenon12
  4. #2,566Abb11
  5. #2,566Achille11
  6. #2,566Achilles11
  7. #2,566Adelard11
  8. #2,725Abran10
  9. #2,725Agustus10
  10. #2,725Aloysuis10

Tied with 158 names at #2,566; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 477Jonnie#1,332 → #855
  2. ↑ 433Jorge#1,425 → #992
  3. ↑ 410Faustino#1,390 → #980
  4. ↑ 404Adelbert#1,246 → #842
  5. ↑ 381Cameron#1,164 → #783
Fallers
  1. ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
  2. ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
  3. ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
  4. ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
  5. ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124

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

See the top 100 for 1926 →