Abegail

Last seen for girls in 2019 at #12,448

Peak · girls
2000 · 35 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
515
since 1981

Abegail over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abegail has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #3,664, 2000girls
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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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rankbirths
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2019#12,4487
2018#10,5459
2017#8,77612
2016#12,8767
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2014#8,96612
2013#10,23510
2012#6,87218
2011#7,11817
2010#5,24726
2009#6,09122
2008#6,79919
2007#5,70924
2006#4,81129
2005#4,48730
2004#5,55522
2003#6,05519
2002#6,39217
2001#4,68825
2000#3,66435
1999#7,71612
1998#5,12320
1997#7,28312
1996#6,39214
1995#5,43917
1994#6,31914
1993#8,05210
1992#10,4797
1991#13,1475
1990#7,88010
1989#8,0379
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1986#10,9125
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1984#8,1537
1983#7,3128
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Abegail! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Abegail is popular in 1991

No state had 5 or more girls named Abegail in 1991, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abegail
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2000 at #3,664 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 2002, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 51,887
  • Highest: 1 in 51,887 girls born in 2000 were named Abegail (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 239,767 girls born in 2019 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 47.0% of all girls named Abegail (242) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s34#7,312 (1983)#8,965
1990s121#5,123 (1998)#7,783
2000s242#3,664 (2000)#5,425
2010s118#5,247 (2010)#9,231

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.

Abegail in 1991

girls
#13,147
5 births · 1 in 375,001 girls

Top girls' names in 1991

  1. #1Ashley43,477
  2. #2Jessica43,398
  3. #3Brittany29,093
  4. #4Amanda28,896
  5. #5Samantha25,651
  6. #6Sarah25,233
  7. #7Stephanie22,775
  8. #8Jennifer20,673
  9. #9Elizabeth20,395
  10. #10Emily20,311
  11. #13,147Abegail5
More about 1991

girls

1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 375,001 of them was named Abegail, which outranked 15.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abegail
  1. #11,509Zitlali6
  2. #11,509Zofia6
  3. #11,509Zondra6
  4. #13,147Abegail5
  5. #13,147Aaminah5
  6. #13,147Abraham5
  7. #13,147Abrar5

Tied with 2,319 names at #13,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,600Rebeccah#2,600 → #1,000
  2. ↑ 1,221Ieshia#1,938 → #717
  3. ↑ 1,135Miriah#2,081 → #946
  4. ↑ 861Alexus#1,813 → #952
  5. ↑ 676Chynna#1,512 → #836
Fallers
  1. ↓ 568Infant#432 → #1,000
  2. ↓ 510Lakeshia#897 → #1,407
  3. ↓ 466Latifah#701 → #1,167
  4. ↓ 432Martika#757 → #1,189
  5. ↓ 416Cecily#575 → #991

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

See the top 100 for 1991 →