Abigael

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Peak · girls
2002 · 78 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,959
since 1980

Abigael over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abigael has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19801990200020102020peak #2,142, 2002girls
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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#5,55422—
2024#3,89238—
2023#3,58543—
2022#3,96337—
2021#4,24533—
2020#4,16933—
2019#3,66541—
2018#3,39646—
2017#3,38746—
2016#2,96656—
2015#3,59543—
2014#3,48645—
2013#2,72663—
2012#2,33680—
2011#2,76363—
2010#2,64268—
2009#2,31684—
2008#2,69068—
2007#2,85863—
2006#2,60269—
2005#2,58066—
2004#2,39671#11,3565
2003#2,22977—
2002#2,14278—
2001#2,25971—
2000#2,27768—
1999#2,56755—
1998#2,18865—
1997#2,42354—
1996#2,55849—
1995#2,55249—
1994#2,98839—
1993#4,52422—
1992#3,41932—
1991#4,65021—
1990#4,38022—
1989#4,84818—
1988#6,27712—
1987#7,3539—
1986#7,7498—
1985#6,45710—
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1983#7,3128—
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1981#7,4098—
1980#9,0956—
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five girls were named Abigael! It came in at #9,095, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Abigael is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Abigael in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abigael
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,385 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #5,554)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 2002 at #2,142 (78 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 18 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 21,870
  • Highest: 1 in 21,870 girls born in 2009 were named Abigael (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,142 in 2002, was only 1 in 23,037 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 36.5% of all girls named Abigael (715) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s79#4,848 (1989)#7,063
1990s408#2,188 (1998)#3,225
2000s715#2,142 (2002)#2,435
2010s551#2,336 (2012)#3,096
2020s206#3,585 (2023)#4,235

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.

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