Abbey
Abbey was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,723 among girls’ names; 17,544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,100 Americans named Abbey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abbey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abbey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abbey is “a diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abbey?
#5,723 among girls’ names, 2025
Abbey fell from #1,416 in 2015 to #5,723 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 91.3 to 13.1 per million.
716 babies in 1999, the peak
Abbey peaked in 1999, when 716 babies were given it (710 girls, #392 among girls’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,613 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,165 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,039 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,435 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,341 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,249 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,646 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,053 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,590 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,416 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 222 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 253 | #999 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 290 | #898 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 299 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 307 | #893 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 344 | #825 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 349 | #822 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 404 | #703 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 453 | #621 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 505 | #567 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 625 | #474 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 600 | #472 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 688 | #416 | 0.38 |
| 2000 | 660 | #425 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 710 | #392 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 662 | #408 | 0.37 |
| 1997 | 646 | #406 | 0.37 |
| 1996 | 552 | #454 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 549 | #460 | 0.31 |
| 1994 | 597 | #420 | 0.33 |
| 1993 | 503 | #496 | 0.28 |
| 1992 | 430 | #545 | 0.23 |
| 1991 | 451 | #515 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 508 | #480 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 470 | #500 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 404 | #539 | 0.23 |
| 1987 | 327 | #597 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 370 | #548 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 314 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 357 | #538 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 420 | #475 | 0.25 |
| 1982 | 370 | #529 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 383 | #514 | 0.23 |
| 1980 | 273 | #659 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 255 | #675 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 176 | #842 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,380 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,625 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 62 | #1,553 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,622 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,276 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,857 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,307 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,296 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,963 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,457 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,729 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,754 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,695 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,221 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,324 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,805 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,377 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,427 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abbey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abbey has been given almost only to girls: 35 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Abbey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abbey, and how old are they?
17,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 17,544 Americans ever recorded as Abbey. The median Abbey alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 18,101 people named Abbey (17,951 women and girls, 150 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,998 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,130 |
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 Abbey born?
The states with the most babies named Abbey are Ohio, Texas and California, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 1,219 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 1,089 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 948 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 907 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 861 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 751 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 743 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 573 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 539 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 504 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Abbey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abbey is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1914 it was given 1.7 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 Abbey 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 106,232 babies since 1880, Abbey is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 544 babies (3.9%), again the third most given.
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 Abbey
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 Abbey and names like it
- Compare Abbey and AbbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAbbey peaked in 1999.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abbey since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Abbey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Abbey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abbey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.