Avigail
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,217since 1968
Avigail over time
Rank among girls' names. Avigail 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 | #2,117 | 88 |
| 2024 | #2,491 | 72 |
| 2023 | #2,494 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,266 | 81 |
| 2020 | #1,991 | 94 |
| 2019 | #2,428 | 73 |
| 2018 | #2,217 | 83 |
| 2017 | #1,876 | 108 |
| 2016 | #1,785 | 116 |
| 2015 | #1,984 | 100 |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 |
| 2013 | #2,096 | 91 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #3,017 | 57 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
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| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Avigail! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Avigail is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#738 · 1 in 3,556
- New York#967 · 1 in 5,183
- Florida#1,326 · 1 in 8,507
- Texas#2,941 · 1 in 27,025
Best ever in a state: #508 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #738 | 10 | 1 in 3,556 |
| New York | #967 | 15 | 1 in 5,183 |
| Florida | #1,326 | 10 | 1 in 8,507 |
| Texas | #2,941 | 6 | 1 in 27,025 |
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See more about Avigail
- 374 spots since 2024 (#2,491 → #2,117)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#1,991 → #2,117)
- 133 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #2,117)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2016 at #1,785 (116 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,276 girls born in 2016 were named Avigail (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.9% of all girls named Avigail (841) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 17 | #7,435 (1973) | #8,218 |
| 1980s | 56 | #5,757 (1986) | #8,239 |
| 1990s | 242 | #3,353 (1998) | #4,693 |
| 2000s | 581 | #2,286 (2009) | #2,858 |
| 2010s | 841 | #1,785 (2016) | #2,306 |
| 2020s | 475 | #1,991 (2020) | #2,319 |
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.
Avigail in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
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1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 22,600 of them was named Avigail, which outranked 85.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,466Shreya72
- #2,466Starr72
- #2,466Uma72
- #2,494Avigail71
- #2,494Anvika71
- #2,494Arianny71
- #2,494Bea71
- #2,517Acelynn70
- #2,517Adrian70
- #2,517Ameena70
Tied with 22 names at #2,494; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.