Abygail
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 180 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,860since 1974
Abygail over time
Rank among girls' names. Abygail 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 |
| 2018 | #2,508 | 70 |
| 2017 | #2,283 | 81 |
| 2016 | #1,757 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,850 | 111 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 |
| 2012 | #1,457 | 156 |
| 2011 | #1,455 | 155 |
| 2010 | #1,456 | 155 |
| 2009 | #1,334 | 180 |
| 2008 | #1,405 | 169 |
| 2007 | #1,387 | 173 |
| 2006 | #1,381 | 165 |
| 2005 | #1,599 | 127 |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 |
| 2003 | #1,743 | 108 |
| 2002 | #1,934 | 91 |
| 2001 | #2,461 | 63 |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 |
| 1999 | #2,675 | 52 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abygail! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Abygail is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#667 · 1 in 4,996
- California#1,954 · 1 in 21,906
- Texas#2,203 · 1 in 24,537
Best ever in a state: #433 in Oklahoma, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #667 | 5 | 1 in 4,996 |
| California | #1,954 | 10 | 1 in 21,906 |
| Texas | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 24,537 |
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See more about Abygail
- 69 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,325)
- 2,827 spots since 2020 (#3,498 → #6,325)
- 4,475 spots since 2015 (#1,850 → #6,325)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2009 at #1,334 (180 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,206 girls born in 2009 were named Abygail (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.5% of all girls named Abygail (1,273) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 22 | #6,531 (1989) | #9,885 |
| 1990s | 281 | #2,675 (1999) | #5,008 |
| 2000s | 1,273 | #1,334 (2009) | #1,703 |
| 2010s | 1,115 | #1,455 (2011) | #1,978 |
| 2020s | 164 | #3,498 (2020) | #5,101 |
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.
Abygail in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 34,112 of them was named Abygail, which outranked 84.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,640Soledad53
- #2,640Taiya53
- #2,640Tanesha53
- #2,675Abygail52
- #2,675Alasia52
- #2,675Alyvia52
- #2,675Annah52
- #2,703Aditi51
- #2,703Carsen51
- #2,703Cassidi51
Tied with 27 names at #2,675; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.