Abigayl
Abigayl was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 345 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abigayl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abigayl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,697, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 2002, the peak
Abigayl peaked in 2002, when 23 girls were given it, #5,082 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #15,697 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,922 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,244 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,838 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,577 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,601 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,489 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,780 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,904 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,452 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 18 | #7,071 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,549 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,126 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,244 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,416 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,082 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,171 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,204 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,799 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,583 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,158 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,390 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,764 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,775 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,192 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abigayl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abigayl has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abigayl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abigayl, and how old are they?
An estimated 341 Americans named Abigayl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Abigayl (345 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Abigayl?
Abigayl is a less common spelling of Abigail: SSA has recorded 345 Abigayl and 413,935 Abigail since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 438,473 babies since 1880, Abigayl is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,033 babies recorded by SSA was a Abigayl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Abigayl
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 Abigayl and names like it
- Compare Abigayl and AbigailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbigayl peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abigayl since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Abigayl.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abigayl alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.