Abba
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 85.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 91since 1999
Abba 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #10,803 | 6 | |
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
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| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
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| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abba! It came in at #8,704, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Abba is popular in 1924
No state had 5 or more boys named Abba in 1924, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abba
- 63 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #7,194)
- 4,892 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2025 at #7,194 (11 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 were named Abba (0.00%)
- 44.0% of all boys named Abba (40) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6 | #8,704 (1999) | #8,704 |
| 2000s | 6 | #9,243 (2001) | #9,243 |
| 2010s | 40 | #8,130 (2014) | #10,219 |
| 2020s | 39 | #7,194 (2025) | #9,747 |
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.
Abba in 1924
Top girls' names in 1924
More about 1924
girls
1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 208,145 of them was named Abba, which outranked 24.8% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,002Yula7
- #4,002Zeda7
- #4,002Zenia7
- #4,434Abba6
- #4,434Adelita6
- #4,434Adine6
- #4,434Agda6
- #5,061Adalaide5
- #5,061Adalee5
- #5,061Adalyne5
Tied with 626 names at #4,434; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.