Aba — unisex name

What the Data Says About Aba

The Social Security Administration has registered 27 babies named Aba between 1978 and 2017, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aba currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Aba is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aba performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Aba shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aba in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 27 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.