Abagail
Abagail was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,887 among girls’ names; 5,898 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,820 Americans named Abagail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abagail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abagail?
#7,887 among girls’ names, 2025
Abagail fell from #1,937 in 2015 to #7,887 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 58.3 to 8.1 per million.
321 babies in 2008, the peak
Abagail peaked in 2008, when 321 girls were given it, #868 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,887 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,870 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,200 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,221 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,851 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,509 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,816 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,480 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,937 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,624 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 160 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 223 | #1,111 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 231 | #1,066 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 282 | #919 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 297 | #911 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 321 | #868 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 314 | #885 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 298 | #892 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 288 | #881 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 258 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 276 | #869 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 256 | #882 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 244 | #919 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 222 | #953 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 211 | #977 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 183 | #1,064 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 181 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 139 | #1,254 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 154 | #1,136 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 132 | #1,282 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,209 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,397 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,981 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,308 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,729 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,340 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,426 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,384 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,152 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,359 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,299 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abagail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abagail has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abagail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abagail, and how old are they?
5,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,898 Americans ever recorded as Abagail. The median Abagail alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,749 people named Abagail (5,736 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,678 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 87 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 865 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 803 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Abagail born?
The states with the most babies named Abagail are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 335 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 302 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 302 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 259 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 238 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 205 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 199 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 197 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 196 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 161 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Abagail is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abagail is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1950 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abagail with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 442,118 babies since 1880, Abagail is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 5,050 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abagail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Abagail and names like it
- Compare Abagail and AbigailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbagail peaked in 2008.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abagail since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Abagail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abagail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.