Abbie

Where Abbie comes from

The dictionaries list Abbie as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #178 among girls — 71 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #166
    81 babies named Abbie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    Abbie Hoffman born
    American activist
  4. 1949
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,452.
  5. 1982
    Abbie Cornish born
    Australian actress
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Abigail.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Albert.
Namesakes
  • Abbie Cornish · Australian actress, born 1982
  • Abbie Hoffman · American activist, 1936–1989
  • Abbie McManus · English football player, born 1993
  • Abbie Cobb · actress, author, born 1992
  • Abbie Wood · British female swimmer, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.