Abi
Abi was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,457 among girls’ names; 654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abi is “a diminutive of the female given name Abigail.”
Clipping of Abigail.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abi?
#9,457 among girls’ names, 2025
Abi fell from #6,720 in 2015 to #9,457 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 6.2 per million.
32 babies in 2007, the peak
Abi peaked in 2007, when 32 babies were given it (26 girls, #5,376 among girls’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,457 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,165 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,055 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,628 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,250 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,966 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,340 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,146 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,339 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,991 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,720 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,713 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,030 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,574 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,194 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,382 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,378 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,349 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,376 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,125 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,135 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,826 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,052 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,694 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,347 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,533 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,236 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,582 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,006 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,573 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,512 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,568 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,049 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,733 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,190 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,521 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,276 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,886 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,962 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,245 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,012 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,647 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,284 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,423 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 654 Americans recorded as Abi, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Abi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abi, and how old are they?
An estimated 645 Americans named Abi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,059 people named Abi (1,600 women and girls, 459 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Abi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 89,394 babies since 1880, Abi is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 566 babies (1.8%), again the fifth 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 Abi
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 Abi and names like it
- Compare Abi and AbbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbi peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abi since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Abi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.