Abiel
Abiel was given to 97 boys in 2025, #1,688 among boys’ names; 1,645 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Abiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abiel?
#1,688 among boys’ names, 2025
Abiel rose from #2,019 in 2015 to #1,688 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 37.0 to 56.8 per million.
119 babies in 2024, the peak
Abiel peaked in 2024, when 119 boys were given it, #1,503 among boys’ names. The 97 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,688 | 56.8 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,503 | 69.1 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,804 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,918 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,122 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,924 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,420 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,385 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,065 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,168 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,019 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,490 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,065 | 34.4 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,379 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,589 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,428 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,527 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,946 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,281 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,399 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,938 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,155 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,275 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,018 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,472 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,635 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,100 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,848 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,347 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,198 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,504 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,090 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,223 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,664 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,092 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,965 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,159 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,159 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,955 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,880 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,146 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,561 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,237 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,005 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,470 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,496 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,401 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,846 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,587 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,796 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,100 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,986 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,906 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,645 Americans recorded as Abiel, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 97 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Abiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abiel, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,645 Americans ever recorded as Abiel. The median Abiel alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,443 people named Abiel (54 women and girls, 1,389 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 178 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 584 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 812 |
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 Abiel born?
The states with the most babies named Abiel are Texas, California and New York, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,250 | 2.3× |
| California | 12 | #1,440 | 0.9× |
| New York | 8 | #1,299 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,626 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #691 | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | #603 | 0.3× |
Where Abiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abiel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1971 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Abiel 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 67,901 babies since 1880, Abiel is the second most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 1,627 babies (6.0%), again the second 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 Abiel
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 Abiel and names like it
- Compare Abiel and AbelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAbiel peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abiel since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Abiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.