Abbe
Abbe was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 1,325 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Abbe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 41 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abbe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abbe mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Abbe is “a diminutive of the male given names Abraham, Albin, and Albert”
/²abɛ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abbe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,569, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 1958, the peak
Abbe peaked in 1958, when 78 girls were given it, #1,202 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,569 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,001 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,381 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,413 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,497 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,258 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,407 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,443 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,312 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 | 11.0 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,255 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,281 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,571 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,118 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,258 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,505 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,249 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,689 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,831 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,661 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,280 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,184 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,851 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,736 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,431 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,943 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,253 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,537 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,931 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,196 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,760 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,599 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,948 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,720 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,232 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,091 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,166 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,208 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,916 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,708 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,376 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,585 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,154 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,946 | 19.5 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,618 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,857 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,249 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,654 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,566 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 78 | #1,202 | 38.8 |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,201 | 37.7 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,680 | 19.9 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,479 | 24.0 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,835 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,930 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,577 | 20.0 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,244 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,422 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,243 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abbe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abbe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abbe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abbe, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,325 Americans ever recorded as Abbe. The median Abbe alive today is 57 years old; half are between 41 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,308 people named Abbe (1,259 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 482 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 318 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 Abbe born?
The states with the most babies named Abbe are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 266 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Abbe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abbe is most over-represented in New York: since 1949 it was given 2.5 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 Abbe 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 106,722 babies since 1880, Abbe is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 554 babies recorded by SSA was a Abbe (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Abbe
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 Abbe and names like it
- Compare Abbe and AbbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sAbbe peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abbe since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Abbe: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Abbe.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Abbe alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.