Abigael
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,959since 1980
Abigael over time
Rank among girls' names. Abigael 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,245 | 33 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,396 | 46 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,387 | 46 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,336 | 80 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,763 | 63 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,690 | 68 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,858 | 63 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,396 | 71 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #2,229 | 77 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,142 | 78 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,277 | 68 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,423 | 54 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,552 | 49 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
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| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
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| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
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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 1986
No state had 5 or more girls named Abigael in 1986, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abigael
- 1,662 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #5,554)
- 1,385 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #5,554)
- 1,959 spots since 2015 (#3,595 → #5,554)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2002 at #2,142 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 36.5% of all girls named Abigael (715) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 79 | #4,848 (1989) | #7,063 |
| 1990s | 408 | #2,188 (1998) | #3,225 |
| 2000s | 715 | #2,142 (2002) | #2,435 |
| 2010s | 551 | #2,336 (2012) | #3,096 |
| 2020s | 206 | #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.
Abigael in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 214,443 of them was named Abigael, which outranked 39.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,134Zeinab9
- #7,134Zelma9
- #7,134Zora9
- #7,749Abigael8
- #7,749Aamber8
- #7,749Abbigayle8
- #7,749Abraham8
- #8,523Aaisha7
- #8,523Abagael7
- #8,523Abbygail7
Tied with 773 names at #7,749; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.