Abegail — girls' name

What the Data Says About Abegail

The Social Security Administration has registered 515 babies named Abegail between 1981 and 2019, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Abegail currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Abegail performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Abegail shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Abegail in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Abegail in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 515 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.