Able
#5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · boys
- 1918 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,115since 1912
Able over time
Rank among boys' names. Able 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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 2015 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #2,662 | 9 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #2,459 | 12 |
| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #2,398 | 12 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | — | |
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| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
| 1911 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Able! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Able is popular in 2003
No state had 5 or more boys named Able in 2003, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Able
- 196 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #5,045)
- 1,475 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #5,045)
- 2,181 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1918 at #2,398 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1919, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,686 boys born in 2014 were named Able (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,398 in 1918, was only 1 in 84,457 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.0% of all boys named Able (346) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 30 | #2,398 (1918) | #3,017 |
| 1920s | 37 | #2,459 (1920) | #3,525 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,022 (1930) | #3,306 |
| 1940s | 20 | #2,802 (1949) | #3,082 |
| 1950s | 49 | #2,662 (1951) | #3,269 |
| 1960s | 42 | #2,871 (1960) | #3,420 |
| 1970s | 73 | #2,902 (1975) | #3,767 |
| 1980s | 95 | #3,030 (1981) | #4,157 |
| 1990s | 99 | #3,877 (1997) | #5,304 |
| 2000s | 160 | #3,893 (2007) | #5,302 |
| 2010s | 346 | #2,661 (2014) | #3,327 |
| 2020s | 145 | #3,464 (2022) | #4,520 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Able in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 164,612 of them was named Able, which outranked 53.9% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,558Zackaria13
- #5,558Zamar13
- #5,558Zubair13
- #5,877Able12
- #5,877Abdulahi12
- #5,877Abdulmalik12
- #5,877Abrahm12
- #6,258Aaronjames11
- #6,258Aayden11
- #6,258Adarian11
Tied with 380 names at #5,877; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.