Abba — #7482 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Abba

The Social Security Administration has registered 80 babies named Abba between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Abba currently holds the #7482 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Abba is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Abba performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Abba shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Abba in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Abba 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 80 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.