Abbigail

#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2009 · 676 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
12,154
since 1959

Abbigail over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abbigail has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #458, 2009girls
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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#3,78039—
2024#3,96337—
2023#2,85259—
2022#2,55469—
2021#2,48471—
2020#1,97795—
2019#1,528141—
2018#1,378163—
2017#1,303180—
2016#1,132224—
2015#1,025261—
2014#855322—
2013#747364—
2012#619462—
2011#514570—
2010#508590—
2009#458676—
2008#510608—
2007#495653—
2006#490631—
2005#502601—
2004#519553#11,3565
2003#515555—
2002#484578—
2001#505544—
2000#549475—
1999#612396—
1998#613392—
1997#693310—
1996#759278—
1995#842232—
1994#1,115161—
1993#1,447111—
1992#1,87675—
1991#1,93372—
1990#1,70186—
1989#2,19455—
1988#1,93463—
1987#2,65737—
1986#2,42041—
1985#2,65736—
1984#2,85131—
1983#2,78331—
1982#3,17227—
1981#2,65734—
1980#2,94030—
1979#3,33324—
1978#3,38822—
1977#5,88810—
1976#7,2967—
1975#5,51610—
1974#8,7755—
1973#8,4235—
1972#5,4809—
1971#6,0068—
1970#6,3627—
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1967#4,9828—
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1965#6,5395—
1964#6,7675—
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First appearance
1959

The first year at least five girls were named Abbigail! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1959–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Abbigail is popular in 1975

No state had 5 or more girls named Abbigail in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abbigail
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 183 spots since 2024 (#3,963 → #3,780)
  • 1,803 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #3,780)
  • 2,755 spots since 2015 (#1,025 → #3,780)
  • Biggest jump: 273 spots in 1995 (#1,115 → #842)
  • Biggest drop: 170 spots in 2015 (#855 → #1,025)
Rise & fade · girls
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 2009 at #458 (676 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,718
  • Highest: 1 in 2,718 girls born in 2009 were named Abbigail (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 41,212 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.3% of all girls named Abbigail (5,874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,245 (1959)#6,245
1960s23#4,982 (1967)#6,217
1970s107#3,333 (1979)#6,047
1980s385#1,934 (1988)#2,627
1990s2,113#612 (1999)#1,159
2000s5,874#458 (2009)#503
2010s3,277#508 (2010)#961
2020s370#1,977 (2020)#2,935

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.

Abbigail in 1975

girls
#5,516
10 births · 1 in 145,786 girls

Top girls' names in 1975

  1. #1Jennifer58,190
  2. #2Amy32,254
  3. #3Heather24,301
  4. #4Melissa24,168
  5. #5Angela23,361
  6. #6Michelle22,665
  7. #7Kimberly20,257
  8. #8Lisa18,139
  9. #9Stephanie15,775
  10. #10Nicole14,275
  11. #5,516Abbigail10
More about 1975

girls

1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 145,786 of them was named Abbigail, which outranked 48.1% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbigail
  1. #5,161Yehudis11
  2. #5,161Zahra11
  3. #5,161Zora11
  4. #5,516Abbigail10
  5. #5,516Abeer10
  6. #5,516Adenike10
  7. #5,516Adreana10
  8. #5,984Adalia9
  9. #5,984Adama9
  10. #5,984Addy9

Tied with 467 names at #5,516; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,732Pepper#2,683 → #951
  2. ↑ 1,666Mandie#2,396 → #730
  3. ↑ 1,140Tiana#1,772 → #632
  4. ↑ 779Lacy#1,486 → #707
  5. ↑ 719Lacey#1,284 → #565
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Nia#672 → #1,119
  2. ↓ 429Alethea#716 → #1,145
  3. ↓ 404Cicely#608 → #1,012
  4. ↓ 307Elaina#994 → #1,301
  5. ↓ 303Cristin#938 → #1,241

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

See the top 100 for 1975 →