Abney

Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · Last seen for boys in 1913 at #2,821
Given to girls 66.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2000 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
10
since 2000

Abney over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #15,031, 2000girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
2000

The first year at least five girls were named Abney! It came in at #15,031, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2000–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Abney is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more girls named Abney in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abney
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2010
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 2000
  • Peaked 2000 at #15,031 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 2001, 1 yr 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 355,519
  • Highest: 1 in 355,519 girls born in 2010 were named Abney (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #15,031 in 2000, was only 1 in 363,207 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 50.0% of all girls named Abney (5) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2000
  • Mostly boys until 1999, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s5#15,031 (2000)#15,031
2010s5#16,992 (2010)#16,992

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.

Abney in 1913

boys
#2,821
5 births · 1 in 102,513 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #2,821Abney5
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 102,513 of them was named Abney, which outranked 13.5% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abney
  1. #2,496Zaragoza6
  2. #2,496Zenon6
  3. #2,496Zollie6
  4. #2,821Abney5
  5. #2,821Abb5
  6. #2,821Abbott5
  7. #2,821Abron5

Tied with 440 names at #2,821; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. 1,050Mathias#1,885#835
  2. 935Hymen#1,885#950
  3. 796Waldemar#1,746#950
  4. 751Rolf#1,746#995
  5. 689Domenico#1,619#930
Fallers
  1. 975Holland#970#1,945
  2. 885Cameron#918#1,803
  3. 868Larue#935#1,803
  4. 726Irene#854#1,580
  5. 688Hughie#892#1,580

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

See the top 100 for 1913