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
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 676 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,154since 1959
Abbigail over time
Rank among girls' names. Abbigail has never cracked the top 400 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 | #3,780 | 39 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,852 | 59 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 95 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,528 | 141 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,378 | 163 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,303 | 180 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,132 | 224 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,025 | 261 | — | |
| 2014 | #855 | 322 | — | |
| 2013 | #747 | 364 | — | |
| 2012 | #619 | 462 | — | |
| 2011 | #514 | 570 | — | |
| 2010 | #508 | 590 | — | |
| 2009 | #458 | 676 | — | |
| 2008 | #510 | 608 | — | |
| 2007 | #495 | 653 | — | |
| 2006 | #490 | 631 | — | |
| 2005 | #502 | 601 | — | |
| 2004 | #519 | 553 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #515 | 555 | — | |
| 2002 | #484 | 578 | — | |
| 2001 | #505 | 544 | — | |
| 2000 | #549 | 475 | — | |
| 1999 | #612 | 396 | — | |
| 1998 | #613 | 392 | — | |
| 1997 | #693 | 310 | — | |
| 1996 | #759 | 278 | — | |
| 1995 | #842 | 232 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,115 | 161 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,447 | 111 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,933 | 72 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 63 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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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 1978
No state had 5 or more girls named Abbigail in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abbigail
- 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)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2009 at #458 (676 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
- 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%)
- 48.3% of all girls named Abbigail (5,874) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 23 | #4,982 (1967) | #6,217 |
| 1970s | 107 | #3,333 (1979) | #6,047 |
| 1980s | 385 | #1,934 (1988) | #2,627 |
| 1990s | 2,113 | #612 (1999) | #1,159 |
| 2000s | 5,874 | #458 (2009) | #503 |
| 2010s | 3,277 | #508 (2010) | #961 |
| 2020s | 370 | #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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 69,630 of them was named Abbigail, which outranked 70.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,283Vilma23
- #3,283Yecenia23
- #3,283Youlanda23
- #3,388Abbigail22
- #3,388Aishia22
- #3,388Ambra22
- #3,388Ameerah22
- #3,512Abbi21
- #3,512Adelle21
- #3,512Aleesha21
Tied with 123 names at #3,388; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.