Abbigail
Abbigail was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,779 among girls’ names; 12,159 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,000 Americans named Abbigail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abbigail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abbigail mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abbigail is “a female given name.”
A rare nonstandard spelling of Abigail.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abbigail?
#3,779 among girls’ names, 2025
Abbigail fell from #1,025 in 2015 to #3,779 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.02 per 1,000.
676 babies in 2009, the peak
Abbigail peaked in 2009, when 676 girls were given it, #458 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,779 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,963 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,852 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,554 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,485 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,977 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,529 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,379 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 180 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 224 | #1,132 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 261 | #1,025 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 322 | #855 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 364 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 462 | #619 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 570 | #514 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 590 | #508 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 676 | #458 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 608 | #510 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 653 | #495 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 631 | #490 | 0.33 |
| 2005 | 601 | #502 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 553 | #519 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 555 | #515 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 578 | #484 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 544 | #505 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 475 | #549 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 396 | #612 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 392 | #613 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 310 | #693 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 278 | #759 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 232 | #841 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,113 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,445 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,871 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,927 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,697 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,930 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,655 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,419 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,782 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,171 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,333 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,388 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,887 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,479 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,577 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,244 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abbigail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abbigail has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Abbigail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abbigail, and how old are they?
12,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,159 Americans ever recorded as Abbigail. The median Abbigail alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 9,864 people named Abbigail (9,859 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,699 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 141 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,010 |
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 Abbigail born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,288 | 0.6× |
Where Abbigail is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abbigail is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1959 it was given 1.8 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 Abbigail with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Abbigail?
Abbigail is a less common spelling of Abigail: SSA has recorded 12,159 Abbigail and 413,935 Abigail since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 442,118 babies since 1880, Abbigail is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 5,050 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Abbigail
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 Abbigail and names like it
- Compare Abbigail and AbigailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbbigail peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abbigail since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Abbigail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abbigail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.