Abiola
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 78.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 183since 1977
Abiola over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
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| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
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| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
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| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abiola! It came in at #6,340, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Abiola is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more girls named Abiola in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abiola
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1977 at #6,340 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 130,852 girls born in 2018 were named Abiola (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,430 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #6,340 in 1977, was only 1 in 170,350 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.1% of all girls named Abiola (57) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2011, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #6,340 (1977) | #6,995 |
| 1980s | 26 | #7,691 (1988) | #9,694 |
| 1990s | 45 | #8,804 (1994) | #10,156 |
| 2000s | 28 | #11,417 (2006) | #13,345 |
| 2010s | 57 | #8,146 (2018) | #13,842 |
| 2020s | 11 | #13,462 (2023) | #14,357 |
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.
Abiola in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 289,772 of them was named Abiola, which outranked 25.9% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,778Zora7
- #8,778Zuleyma7
- #8,778Zuly7
- #9,825Abiola6
- #9,825Abbigayle6
- #9,825Abibail6
- #9,825Abir6
- #11,325Aarica5
- #11,325Abbigale5
- #11,325Abel5
Tied with 1,499 names at #9,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Abiola, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.