Abbott
Abbott was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,948 among boys’ names; 1,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abbott by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abbott mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abbott is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
An occupational surname for someone employed by an abbot. In the U.S., sometimes an anglicization of Italian Abate, Spanish Abad or German Abt. Doublet of Abad.
/ˈæbət/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abbott?
#3,948 among boys’ names, 2025
Abbott fell from #2,684 in 2015 to #3,948 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 15.8 per million.
59 babies in 2016, the peak
Abbott peaked in 2016, when 59 boys were given it, #2,255 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,948 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,691 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,175 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,462 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,121 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,200 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,765 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,417 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,239 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,255 | 31.1 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,684 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,580 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,363 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,952 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,045 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,238 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,922 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,063 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,659 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,090 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,277 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,534 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,641 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,346 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,868 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,627 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,797 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,633 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,172 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,268 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,311 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,228 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,403 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 8 | #2,981 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,664 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,256 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,535 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,885 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,448 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,142 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,733 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,066 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,579 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,801 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,667 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,497 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,526 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,241 | 7.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,537 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,041 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,871 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,112 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,646 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,680 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,853 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,393 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,367 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,465 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,470 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #3,999 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #2,979 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,696 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,193 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,435 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,406 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,821 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,019 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,485 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,903 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,642 | 20.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,114 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,647 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,279 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,848 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,659 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,771 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,821 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,884 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,289 | 35.4 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,439 | 30.5 |
| 1888 | 6 | #917 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #910 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abbott a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,320 Americans recorded as Abbott, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Abbott: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abbott, and how old are they?
An estimated 936 Americans named Abbott and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 911 people named Abbott (101 women and girls, 810 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 778 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,354 babies since 1880, Abbott is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), again the 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 Abbott
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 Abbott and names like it
- Compare Abbott and AbbotBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAbbott peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abbott since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Abbott: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Abbott.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abbott alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.