Abigael
Abigael was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,554 among girls’ names; 1,964 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Abigael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abigael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abigael mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abigael is “a female given name.”
Variant of Abigail.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abigael?
#5,554 among girls’ names, 2025
Abigael fell from #3,595 in 2015 to #5,554 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 13.7 per million.
84 babies in 2009, the peak
Abigael peaked in 2009, when 84 girls were given it, #2,316 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,554 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,893 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,585 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,961 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,241 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,168 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,665 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,395 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,386 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,966 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,595 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,484 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,725 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,336 | 45.4 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,762 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,642 | 38.3 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,316 | 45.7 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,690 | 36.0 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,859 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,602 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,576 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,394 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,226 | 42.1 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,139 | 43.4 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,255 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,274 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,564 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,185 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,420 | 31.0 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,554 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,547 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,983 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,519 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,414 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,644 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,375 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,842 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,273 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,349 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,747 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,459 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,312 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,409 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abigael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abigael has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Abigael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abigael, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,964 Americans ever recorded as Abigael. The median Abigael alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,038 people named Abigael (1,946 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,749 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 543 |
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 Abigael born?
The states with the most babies named Abigael are Florida, California and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 132 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 108 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 83 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Abigael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abigael is most over-represented in Florida: since 1980 it was given 1.3 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 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 Abigael 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 438,473 babies since 1880, Abigael is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 5,033 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Abigael
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 Abigael and names like it
- Compare Abigael and AbigailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbigael peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abigael since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Abigael.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abigael alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.