Abbey

#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1999 · 710 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
17,509
since 1917

Abbey over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abbey has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201948peak #392, 1999girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,72221—
2024#5,61522—
2023#6,16919—
2022#4,04136—
2021#3,43545—
2020#2,34175—
2019#2,24981—
2018#2,64765—
2017#2,05395—
2016#1,590139—
2015#1,416163—
2014#1,446157—
2013#1,101222—
2012#999253—
2011#898290—
2010#886299—
2009#893307—
2008#825344—
2007#822349—
2006#703404—
2005#621453—
2004#567505#9,9486
2003#474625—
2002#472600—
2001#416688—
2000#425660—
1999#392710#8,7046
1998#408662—
1997#406646—
1996#454552—
1995#460549—
1994#420597—
1993#496503—
1992#545430—
1991#515451—
1990#481508—
1989#500470—
1988#539404—
1987#597327—
1986#548370—
1985#603314—
1984#538357—
1983#475420—
1982#529370—
1981#514383—
1980#659273—
1979#675255—
1978#842176—
1977#1,38081—
1976#1,69457—
1975#1,62560—
1974#1,55362—
1973#1,62256—
1972#2,27633—
1971#1,85747—
1970#2,30733—
1969#2,29631—
1968#3,31516—
1967#2,96318—
1966#2,83919—
1965#2,83319—
1964#3,51514—
1963#3,45814—
1962#3,03317—
1961#2,75220—
1960#2,72920—
1959#2,45822—
1958#2,75518—
1957#2,41622—
1956#3,69611—
1955#2,22224—
1954#3,32512—
1953#3,48011—
1952#2,80615—
1951#2,57716#3,0667
1950#4,3157—
1949#3,8928—
1948#3,8838—
1947#5,2955—
1946#3,9947#3,1736
1945#3,3888—
1944#3,3788—
1943#3,8017—
1942#3,1949—
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1938#4,3425—
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five girls were named Abbey! It came in at #3,344, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Abbey is popular in 1948

No state had 5 or more girls named Abbey in 1948, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 107 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #5,722)
  • 3,381 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #5,722)
  • 4,306 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #5,722)
  • Biggest jump: 538 spots in 1978 (#1,380 → #842)
  • Biggest drop: 119 spots in 2007 (#703 → #822)
Rise & fade · girls
82 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 1999 at #392 (710 births)
  • Births halved by 2007, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1978–2012
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,498
  • Highest: 1 in 2,498 girls born in 1999 were named Abbey (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 32.0% of all girls named Abbey (5,608) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s8#3,344 (1917)#3,344
1920s5#5,099 (1921)#5,099
1930s17#3,429 (1939)#4,061
1940s60#3,194 (1942)#3,853
1950s158#2,222 (1955)#3,005
1960s188#2,296 (1969)#2,973
1970s860#675 (1979)#1,583
1980s3,688#475 (1983)#550
1990s5,608#392 (1999)#458
2000s4,935#416 (2001)#622
2010s1,764#886 (2010)#1,529
2020s218#2,341 (2020)#4,554

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.

Abbey in 1948

girls
#3,883
8 births · 1 in 212,239 girls

Top girls' names in 1948

  1. #1Linda96,220
  2. #2Mary68,597
  3. #3Barbara46,826
  4. #4Patricia46,140
  5. #5Susan35,988
  6. #6Sandra31,063
  7. #7Nancy29,411
  8. #8Carol28,977
  9. #9Sharon26,143
  10. #10Kathleen23,257
  11. #3,883Abbey8
More about 1948

girls

1,697,908 girls got a published name in 1948; 1 in 212,239 of them was named Abbey, which outranked 35.7% of the 6,040 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbey
  1. #3,593Wynema9
  2. #3,593Ysabel9
  3. #3,593Zina9
  4. #3,883Abbey8
  5. #3,883Aaron8
  6. #3,883Adaline8
  7. #3,883Adelene8
  8. #4,205Adrien7
  9. #4,205Alesia7
  10. #4,205Alfonso7

Tied with 321 names at #3,883; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1947
Risers
  1. ↑ 555Shawn#1,510 → #955
  2. ↑ 549Regena#1,488 → #939
  3. ↑ 491Regenia#1,255 → #764
  4. ↑ 460Mickie#1,228 → #768
  5. ↑ 413Shirleen#1,377 → #964
Fallers
  1. ↓ 408Michaele#859 → #1,267
  2. ↓ 358Marge#969 → #1,327
  3. ↓ 334Ilona#875 → #1,209
  4. ↓ 282Trudi#875 → #1,157
  5. ↓ 248Marylyn#909 → #1,157

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

See the top 100 for 1948 →