Abra
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 65 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,023since 1955
Abra over time
Rank among girls' names. Abra has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 |
| 1983 | #1,689 | 65 |
| 1982 | #1,900 | 56 |
| 1981 | #1,767 | 63 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
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| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abra! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Abra is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,090 · 1 in 30,666
Best ever in a state: #931 in Michigan, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 30,666 |
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See more about Abra
- 2,474 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,917)
- 2,511 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #10,917)
- 918 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1983 at #1,689 (65 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,702 girls born in 1983 were named Abra (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Abra (368) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 22 | #4,467 (1956) | #4,732 |
| 1960s | 75 | #3,619 (1969) | #4,758 |
| 1970s | 177 | #2,922 (1974) | #3,768 |
| 1980s | 368 | #1,689 (1983) | #3,059 |
| 1990s | 134 | #4,671 (1993) | #7,604 |
| 2000s | 72 | #8,196 (2001) | #12,462 |
| 2010s | 90 | #7,092 (2017) | #9,698 |
| 2020s | 85 | #5,237 (2021) | #8,141 |
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.
Abra in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 95,741 of them was named Abra, which outranked 63.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,079Tyrhonda17
- #4,079Yolande17
- #4,079Zarinah17
- #4,242Abra16
- #4,242Adrea16
- #4,242Adrean16
- #4,242Akeisha16
- #4,459Adelia15
- #4,459Akesha15
- #4,459Akira15
Tied with 216 names at #4,242; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.