Abel — #220 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Abel

The Social Security Administration has registered 64,483 babies named Abel between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Abel currently holds the #220 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 3,244 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Abel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 23,545 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Abel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14,341 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Abel in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Abel 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 64,483 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.