Abigayl — girls' name
345 babies named Abigayl in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Abigayl was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Abigayl in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Abigayl
The Social Security Administration has registered 345 babies named Abigayl between 1990 and 2018, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Abigayl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Abigayl performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Abigayl shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Abigayl in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Abigayl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 345 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Abigayl at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Abigayl popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1990
- Peak year (2002)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
345 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 23 births in a single year.
Abigayl by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 199 births that decade — 58% of Abigayl's all-time total
Abigayl decade highlights
- Peak decade 199 births
- Runner-up 75 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Abigayl's strongest decade
199 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Abigayl by state
Where Abigayl concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 345 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.