Abbott

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1880 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,296
since 1880

Abbott over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abbott has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999peak #909, 1880boys
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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—#3,94927
2024—#3,69330
2023—#3,17738
2022—#3,46433
2021—#3,12138
2020—#3,20235
2019—#2,76645
2018—#2,41754
2017—#2,24059
2016—#2,25559
2015#14,4826#2,68445
2014#11,9318#2,58247
2013—#2,36453
2012#16,8695#2,95439
2011—#3,04637
2010—#3,23934
2009—#4,92219
2008—#5,06718
2007—#5,66115
2006—#6,09413
2005#16,4625#5,27815
2004—#7,5369
2003—#8,6437
2002—#7,0559
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2000—#10,3495
1999—#7,8747
1998—#9,6315
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1994—#8,8005
1993—#7,6386
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1990—#7,1786
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1988—#7,2705
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1984—#6,3155
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1970—#4,2306
1969—#4,4045
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1965—#2,9828
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1963—#4,0485
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1960—#3,6656
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1957—#3,2577
1956—#3,5356
1955—#3,8865
1954—#2,44911
1953—#3,1437
1952—#3,7345
1951—#3,0667
1950—#2,5809
1949—#2,8028
1948—#3,6685
1947—#2,49810
1946—#3,5255
1945—#2,24210
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1943—#3,5385
1942—#2,04213
1941—#2,8727
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1939—#3,1136
1938—#2,6468
1937—#2,6808
1936—#2,8547
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1934—#2,39310
1933—#2,36810
1932—#2,46510
1931—#2,47110
1930—#4,0015
1929—#2,9808
1928—#3,6976
1927—#2,19314
1926—#2,43612
1925—#3,4087
1924—#2,82210
1923—#2,02016
1922—#2,48612
1921—#1,90418
1920—#1,64222
1919—#3,1158
1918—#1,64821
1917—#2,28012
1916—#1,84916
1915—#1,66018
1914—#1,77213
1913—#2,8215
1912—#1,8858
1911—#1,2908
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Abbott was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Abbott is popular in 1999

No state had 5 or more boys named Abbott in 1999, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abbott
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 256 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #3,949)
  • 747 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #3,949)
  • 1,265 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #3,949)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1888
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,142
  • Highest: 1 in 20,142 boys born in 1888 were named Abbott (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #909 in 1880, was only 1 in 22,098 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Abbott (472) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s11#909 (1880)#913
1890s0——
1900s5#1,440 (1909)#1,440
1910s109#1,290 (1911)#2,036
1920s125#1,642 (1920)#2,559
1930s74#2,368 (1933)#2,777
1940s63#2,042 (1942)#2,898
1950s57#2,449 (1954)#3,206
1960s24#2,982 (1965)#3,775
1970s6#4,230 (1970)#4,230
1980s10#6,315 (1984)#6,793
1990s29#7,178 (1990)#8,224
2000s110#4,922 (2009)#6,734
2010s472#2,240 (2017)#2,655
2020s201#3,121 (2021)#3,434

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Abbott in 1999

boys
#7,874
7 births · 1 in 274,307 boys

Top boys' names in 1999

  1. #1Jacob35,371
  2. #2Michael33,915
  3. #3Matthew30,418
  4. #4Joshua27,265
  5. #5Nicholas25,639
  6. #6Christopher25,604
  7. #7Andrew23,866
  8. #8Joseph23,220
  9. #9Daniel22,704
  10. #10Tyler22,669
  11. #7,874Abbott7
More about 1999

boys

1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 274,307 of them was named Abbott, which outranked 32.2% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbott
  1. #7,139Zan8
  2. #7,139Zedekiah8
  3. #7,139Zyler8
  4. #7,874Abbott7
  5. #7,874Abad7
  6. #7,874Abdalla7
  7. #7,874Abhiram7
  8. #8,704Aaditya6
  9. #8,704Aaronjames6
  10. #8,704Abba6

Tied with 829 names at #7,874; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,239Trajan#2,235 → #996
  2. ↑ 669Tyreese#1,558 → #889
  3. ↑ 595Latrell#1,231 → #636
  4. ↑ 420Zion#694 → #274
  5. ↑ 414Xander#1,338 → #924
Fallers
  1. ↓ 381Jaret#555 → #936
  2. ↓ 362Kordell#841 → #1,203
  3. ↓ 313Juwan#524 → #837
  4. ↓ 296Jarett#743 → #1,039
  5. ↓ 288Christion#989 → #1,277

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

See the top 100 for 1999 →