Abcde
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 33 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 415since 1990
Abcde over time
Rank among girls' names. Abcde has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abcde! It came in at #12,958, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Abcde is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,537 · 1 in 11,135
Best ever in a state: #279 in Hawaii, 1990.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,537 | 14 | 1 in 11,135 |
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See more about Abcde
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2009 at #4,482 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 55,670 girls born in 2009 were named Abcde (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,226 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 51.8% of all girls named Abcde (215) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 34 | #7,239 (1999) | #11,956 |
| 2000s | 215 | #4,482 (2009) | #6,001 |
| 2010s | 146 | #5,414 (2010) | #8,569 |
| 2020s | 20 | #11,146 (2021) | #12,810 |
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.
Abcde in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 83,765 of them was named Abcde, which outranked 68.6% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,935Zenobia22
- #5,935Zhane22
- #5,935Zyria22
- #6,148Abcde21
- #6,148Aaron21
- #6,148Abriel21
- #6,148Adabelle21
- #6,335Aamina20
- #6,335Adaliz20
- #6,335Addysyn20
Tied with 186 names at #6,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.