Abbe

Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558

Peak · girls
1957 · 77 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,325
since 1949

Abbe over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #1,202, 1957girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2014#14,5586
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2010#16,9925
2009#9,37912
2008#15,4056
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2005#7,50015
2004#8,25913
2003#12,4087
2002#15,4325
2001#7,31714
2000#5,49120
1999#7,23913
1998#9,2609
1997#7,28312
1996#7,57411
1995#8,07910
1994#8,12210
1993#6,26414
1992#7,51211
1991#6,25314
1990#4,69420
1989#5,83614
1988#6,66611
1987#4,28319
1986#4,18619
1985#3,85221
1984#4,73715
1983#3,43123
1982#4,94514
1981#3,25326
1980#2,53737
1979#2,93129
1978#3,19624
1977#3,76119
1976#5,60110
1975#3,95016
1974#4,72012
1973#3,23320
1972#4,09114
1971#3,16621
1970#3,20820
1969#2,91721
1968#2,70822
1967#2,37626
1966#2,58622
1965#2,15430
1964#1,94737
1963#2,61922
1962#1,85838
1961#2,25028
1960#1,65546
1959#1,56748
1958#1,20378
1957#1,20277
1956#1,68140
1955#1,48047
1954#1,83632
1953#1,93128
1952#1,57837
1951#2,24520
1950#3,42310
1949#5,2445
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five girls were named Abbe! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Abbe is popular in 1980

No state had 5 or more girls named Abbe in 1980, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abbe
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 1957 at #1,202 (77 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 4 yrs later
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 25,790
  • Highest: 1 in 25,790 girls born in 1958 were named Abbe (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 297,726 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,202 in 1957, was only 1 in 26,557 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 31.5% of all girls named Abbe (417) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#5,244 (1949)#5,244
1950s417#1,202 (1957)#1,815
1960s292#1,655 (1960)#2,307
1970s185#2,931 (1979)#3,786
1980s199#2,537 (1980)#4,373
1990s124#4,694 (1990)#7,228
2000s92#5,491 (2000)#10,149
2010s11#14,558 (2014)#15,775

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.

Abbe in 1980

girls
#2,537
37 births · 1 in 44,873 girls

Top girls' names in 1980

  1. #1Jennifer58,374
  2. #2Amanda35,811
  3. #3Jessica33,924
  4. #4Melissa31,629
  5. #5Sarah25,757
  6. #6Heather19,973
  7. #7Nicole19,917
  8. #8Amy19,833
  9. #9Elizabeth19,529
  10. #10Michelle19,119
  11. #2,537Abbe37
More about 1980

girls

1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 44,873 of them was named Abbe, which outranked 79.1% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbe
  1. #2,486Tyeisha38
  2. #2,486Vida38
  3. #2,486Yalonda38
  4. #2,537Abbe37
  5. #2,537Alejandrina37
  6. #2,537Alica37
  7. #2,537Arcelia37
  8. #2,603Alida36
  9. #2,603Allie36
  10. #2,603Alva36

Tied with 65 names at #2,537; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,510Renada#2,218 → #708
  2. ↑ 1,173Tai#2,112 → #939
  3. ↑ 1,036Anya#1,592 → #556
  4. ↑ 601Chimere#1,503 → #902
  5. ↑ 517Brynn#1,442 → #925
Fallers
  1. ↓ 529Marlana#989 → #1,518
  2. ↓ 494Kizzy#647 → #1,141
  3. ↓ 369January#748 → #1,117
  4. ↓ 361Carisa#836 → #1,197
  5. ↓ 328Latonia#841 → #1,169

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

See the top 100 for 1980 →