Abi
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 96.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 632since 1973
Abi over time
Rank among girls' names. Abi 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
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| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abi! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Abi is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,687 · 1 in 27,696
Best ever in a state: #2,687 in Texas, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #2,687 | 6 | 1 in 27,696 |
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See more about Abi
- 3,290 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #9,457)
- 1,488 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #9,457)
- 2,736 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1981 at #4,963 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 65,630 girls born in 2016 were named Abi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,963 in 1981, was only 1 in 119,147 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all girls named Abi (185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #7,649 (1978) | #8,592 |
| 1980s | 69 | #4,963 (1981) | #7,712 |
| 1990s | 91 | #5,010 (1997) | #8,830 |
| 2000s | 180 | #5,377 (2007) | #6,883 |
| 2010s | 185 | #4,990 (2016) | #6,744 |
| 2020s | 84 | #6,167 (2024) | #7,755 |
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.
Abi in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 90,534 of them was named Abi, which outranked 69.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,906Zehra22
- #5,906Zully22
- #5,906Zykerria22
- #6,125Abi21
- #6,125Aadya21
- #6,125Abagayle21
- #6,125Abigayl21
- #6,356Aaleyah20
- #6,356Aamori20
- #6,356Abriel20
Tied with 230 names at #6,125; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.