Abigal

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271

Peak · girls
2000 · 37 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
797
since 1970

Abigal over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Abigal has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #3,527, 2000girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025—
2024#10,2719
2023—
2022#13,5926
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2020#12,1427
2019#15,5395
2018#10,5459
2017#11,6158
2016#8,87512
2015#7,26616
2014#5,31025
2013#6,46219
2012#5,71023
2011#5,72823
2010#4,49432
2009#5,22627
2008#4,88230
2007#5,37726
2006#4,46332
2005#3,80938
2004#3,98935
2003#3,94634
2002#4,28029
2001#3,94032
2000#3,52737
1999#3,80431
1998#4,95521
1997#4,50823
1996#4,30624
1995#3,67029
1994#4,11525
1993#10,5887
1992#8,7349
1991#7,43011
1990#10,1937
1989#4,84818
1988#7,11110
1987#5,92312
1986#8,5237
1985#7,5638
1984#5,89911
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Abigal! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Abigal is popular in 1997

No state had 5 or more girls named Abigal in 1997, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abigal
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2000 at #3,527 (37 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 15 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 48,627
  • Highest: 1 in 48,627 girls born in 2005 were named Abigal (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 180,021 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,527 in 2000, was only 1 in 49,082 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 40.2% of all girls named Abigal (320) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s18#7,649 (1978)#7,933
1980s78#4,848 (1989)#7,313
1990s187#3,670 (1995)#6,230
2000s320#3,527 (2000)#4,344
2010s172#4,494 (2010)#8,154
2020s22#10,271 (2024)#12,002

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.

Abigal in 1997

girls
#4,508
23 births · 1 in 75,683 girls

Top girls' names in 1997

  1. #1Emily25,734
  2. #2Jessica21,045
  3. #3Ashley20,897
  4. #4Sarah20,716
  5. #5Hannah20,597
  6. #6Samantha20,170
  7. #7Taylor19,504
  8. #8Alexis17,171
  9. #9Elizabeth15,430
  10. #10Madison15,189
  11. #4,508Abigal23
More about 1997

girls

1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 75,683 of them was named Abigal, which outranked 72.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abigal
  1. #4,370Vilma24
  2. #4,370Yasmina24
  3. #4,370Zayna24
  4. #4,508Abigal23
  5. #4,508Adrina23
  6. #4,508Adryanna23
  7. #4,508Aishah23
  8. #4,660Aalyiah22
  9. #4,660Aleeya22
  10. #4,660Aleeyah22

Tied with 151 names at #4,508; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. ↑ 9,582Yulisa#10,567 → #985
  2. ↑ 3,882Yulissa#4,306 → #424
  3. ↑ 2,634Tea#3,429 → #795
  4. ↑ 2,046Taya#2,901 → #855
  5. ↑ 1,202Julisa#1,930 → #728
Fallers
  1. ↓ 931Yamilex#707 → #1,638
  2. ↓ 477Suzette#998 → #1,475
  3. ↓ 457Chynna#834 → #1,291
  4. ↓ 396Moesha#547 → #943
  5. ↓ 377Daijah#975 → #1,352

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1997 →