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
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 710 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,509since 1917
Abbey over time
Rank among girls' names. Abbey has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #5,722 | 21 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,647 | 65 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,590 | 139 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,416 | 163 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,446 | 157 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,101 | 222 | — | |
| 2012 | #999 | 253 | — | |
| 2011 | #898 | 290 | — | |
| 2010 | #886 | 299 | — | |
| 2009 | #893 | 307 | — | |
| 2008 | #825 | 344 | — | |
| 2007 | #822 | 349 | — | |
| 2006 | #703 | 404 | — | |
| 2005 | #621 | 453 | — | |
| 2004 | #567 | 505 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #474 | 625 | — | |
| 2002 | #472 | 600 | — | |
| 2001 | #416 | 688 | — | |
| 2000 | #425 | 660 | — | |
| 1999 | #392 | 710 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #408 | 662 | — | |
| 1997 | #406 | 646 | — | |
| 1996 | #454 | 552 | — | |
| 1995 | #460 | 549 | — | |
| 1994 | #420 | 597 | — | |
| 1993 | #496 | 503 | — | |
| 1992 | #545 | 430 | — | |
| 1991 | #515 | 451 | — | |
| 1990 | #481 | 508 | — | |
| 1989 | #500 | 470 | — | |
| 1988 | #539 | 404 | — | |
| 1987 | #597 | 327 | — | |
| 1986 | #548 | 370 | — | |
| 1985 | #603 | 314 | — | |
| 1984 | #538 | 357 | — | |
| 1983 | #475 | 420 | — | |
| 1982 | #529 | 370 | — | |
| 1981 | #514 | 383 | — | |
| 1980 | #659 | 273 | — | |
| 1979 | #675 | 255 | — | |
| 1978 | #842 | 176 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,694 | 57 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,625 | 60 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,553 | 62 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,622 | 56 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,857 | 47 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,307 | 33 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,296 | 31 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,480 | 11 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
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| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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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 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,073 · 1 in 13,913
Best ever in a state: #91 in North Dakota, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,073 | 9 | 1 in 13,913 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Abbey
- 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)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1999 at #392 (710 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1978–2012
- 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%)
- 32.0% of all girls named Abbey (5,608) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #3,344 (1917) | #3,344 |
| 1920s | 5 | #5,099 (1921) | #5,099 |
| 1930s | 17 | #3,429 (1939) | #4,061 |
| 1940s | 60 | #3,194 (1942) | #3,853 |
| 1950s | 158 | #2,222 (1955) | #3,005 |
| 1960s | 188 | #2,296 (1969) | #2,973 |
| 1970s | 860 | #675 (1979) | #1,583 |
| 1980s | 3,688 | #475 (1983) | #550 |
| 1990s | 5,608 | #392 (1999) | #458 |
| 2000s | 4,935 | #416 (2001) | #622 |
| 2010s | 1,764 | #886 (2010) | #1,529 |
| 2020s | 218 | #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 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 35,400 of them was named Abbey, which outranked 80.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,828Thomasina48
- #1,828Towana48
- #1,828Willa48
- #1,857Abbey47
- #1,857Belen47
- #1,857Dallas47
- #1,857Donielle47
- #1,877Anessa46
- #1,877Anitra46
- #1,877Antonio46
Tied with 19 names at #1,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.