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 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,049 · 1 in 7,462
- Georgia#1,427 · 1 in 10,105
- Texas#2,858 · 1 in 31,856
Best ever in a state: #651 in Massachusetts, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,049 | 13 | 1 in 7,462 |
| Georgia | #1,427 | 5 | 1 in 10,105 |
| Texas | #2,858 | 5 | 1 in 31,856 |
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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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 25,863 of them was named Abigael, which outranked 87.3% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,370Shaylynn72
- #2,370Tayah72
- #2,370Zariyah72
- #2,396Abigael71
- #2,396Abbi71
- #2,396Aline71
- #2,396Arrianna71
- #2,424Anela70
- #2,424Ariyah70
- #2,424Asiah70
Tied with 27 names at #2,396; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 396,996 of them was named Abigael, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).