Abella
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 85 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,093since 2000
Abella over time
Rank among girls' names. Abella has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,523 | 68 |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,385 | 78 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 |
| 2014 | #2,371 | 77 |
| 2013 | #2,458 | 73 |
| 2012 | #2,232 | 84 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abella! It came in at #13,154, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001–2003, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Abella is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,396 · 1 in 9,002
- Georgia#1,503 · 1 in 9,252
- California#1,765 · 1 in 14,575
- Texas#1,971 · 1 in 15,892
- Florida#2,024 · 1 in 17,017
Best ever in a state: #743 in Oklahoma, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #1,396 | 5 | 1 in 9,002 |
| Georgia | #1,503 | 5 | 1 in 9,252 |
| California | #1,765 | 13 | 1 in 14,575 |
| Texas | #1,971 | 10 | 1 in 15,892 |
| Florida | #2,024 | 5 | 1 in 17,017 |
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See more about Abella
- 2,747 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #8,362)
- 5,839 spots since 2020 (#2,523 → #8,362)
- 5,891 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #8,362)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2018 at #2,190 (85 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,013 girls born in 2018 were named Abella (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 64.8% of all girls named Abella (708) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 163 | #4,013 (2009) | #8,442 |
| 2010s | 708 | #2,190 (2018) | #2,583 |
| 2020s | 222 | #2,523 (2020) | #4,742 |
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.
Abella in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 20,013 of them was named Abella, which outranked 87.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,179Sheyla86
- #2,179Tayla86
- #2,179Zipporah86
- #2,190Abella85
- #2,190Aarohi85
- #2,190Amerie85
- #2,190Ania85
- #2,207Ahuva84
- #2,207Ameena84
- #2,207Justine84
Tied with 16 names at #2,190; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.