Abby
Abby was given to 379 girls in 2025, #731 among girls’ names; 62,036 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 59,600 Americans named Abby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abby is “a diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew, also used as a formal given name.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.”
/ˈæb.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abby?
#731 among girls’ names, 2025
Abby fell from #434 in 2015 to #731 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.41 to 0.24 per 1,000.
2,048 babies in 2003, the peak
Abby peaked in 2003, when 2,048 girls were given it, #164 among girls’ names. The 379 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 379 | #731 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 478 | #624 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 475 | #624 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 510 | #587 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 524 | #576 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 597 | #509 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 624 | #505 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 658 | #474 | 0.39 |
| 2017 | 703 | #451 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 727 | #442 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (140)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 728 | #434 | 0.41 |
| 2014 | 843 | #388 | 0.47 |
| 2013 | 907 | #352 | 0.52 |
| 2012 | 1,038 | #309 | 0.59 |
| 2011 | 1,065 | #295 | 0.61 |
| 2010 | 1,149 | #284 | 0.65 |
| 2009 | 1,281 | #255 | 0.70 |
| 2008 | 1,332 | #259 | 0.70 |
| 2007 | 1,579 | #220 | 0.82 |
| 2006 | 1,686 | #205 | 0.89 |
| 2005 | 1,754 | #198 | 0.95 |
| 2004 | 2,024 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,048 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 1,961 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 1,986 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 1,566 | #205 | 0.86 |
| 1999 | 1,810 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 1,608 | #194 | 0.91 |
| 1997 | 1,565 | #192 | 0.90 |
| 1996 | 1,419 | #207 | 0.81 |
| 1995 | 1,378 | #209 | 0.78 |
| 1994 | 1,372 | #213 | 0.77 |
| 1993 | 1,176 | #240 | 0.65 |
| 1992 | 1,081 | #260 | 0.59 |
| 1991 | 1,174 | #237 | 0.63 |
| 1990 | 1,293 | #222 | 0.68 |
| 1989 | 1,274 | #212 | 0.69 |
| 1988 | 1,222 | #213 | 0.69 |
| 1987 | 1,052 | #245 | 0.61 |
| 1986 | 1,120 | #232 | 0.65 |
| 1985 | 1,207 | #213 | 0.70 |
| 1984 | 1,263 | #208 | 0.75 |
| 1983 | 1,310 | #200 | 0.78 |
| 1982 | 1,299 | #210 | 0.77 |
| 1981 | 1,211 | #218 | 0.73 |
| 1980 | 930 | #268 | 0.56 |
| 1979 | 791 | #302 | 0.49 |
| 1978 | 619 | #349 | 0.40 |
| 1977 | 279 | #607 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 256 | #611 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 240 | #639 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 220 | #677 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 191 | #734 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 167 | #808 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 204 | #735 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 171 | #810 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 148 | #854 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 134 | #887 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 161 | #779 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 187 | #717 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 222 | #660 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 217 | #703 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 236 | #657 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 286 | #584 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 236 | #672 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 241 | #653 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 176 | #768 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 154 | #810 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 169 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 117 | #933 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 108 | #948 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 108 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 85 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 95 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 82 | #1,026 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,432 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,162 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,366 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,940 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,063 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,692 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,525 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,143 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,140 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,060 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,466 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,501 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,484 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 10 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 12 | #796 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 8 | #950 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 9 | #894 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,147 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 7 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 6 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 11 | #560 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 7 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 6 | #738 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abby has been given almost only to girls: 181 boys in 140 years of records.
Girls and boys named Abby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abby, and how old are they?
59,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 62,036 Americans ever recorded as Abby. The median Abby alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 72,431 people named Abby (72,056 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 57,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 167 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,630 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 25,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,100 |
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 Abby born?
The states with the most babies named Abby are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 47 | #662 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 44 | #684 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 32 | #555 | 0.7× |
| New York | 28 | #585 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #470 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 12 | #748 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #780 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 12 | #606 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #645 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #871 | 1.0× |
Where Abby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abby is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Abby 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, Abby is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 379 of their 554 babies (68%), 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 Abby
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 Abby and names like it
- Compare Abby and AbbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbby peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abby since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Abby: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Abby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.