Abella
Abella was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,360 among girls’ names; 1,093 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Abella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abella?
#8,360 among girls’ names, 2025
Abella fell from #2,472 in 2015 to #8,360 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 7.5 per million.
85 babies in 2018, the peak
Abella peaked in 2018, when 85 girls were given it, #2,191 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,614 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,387 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,171 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,390 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,523 | 42.1 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,594 | 39.9 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,191 | 50.0 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,401 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,385 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,472 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,371 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,458 | 41.6 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,232 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,603 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,122 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,013 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,178 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,953 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,454 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,626 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,359 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,155 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abella, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,093 Americans ever recorded as Abella. The median Abella alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 800 people named Abella (790 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 882 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 745 |
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 Abella born?
The states with the most babies named Abella are California, Texas and Florida, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 164 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Abella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abella is most over-represented in California: since 2000 it was given 1.1 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 Abella 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,326 babies since 1880, Abella is the most given (82% of them).
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 Abella
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 Abella and names like it
- Compare Abella and AbiolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAbella peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abella since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Abella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.