Abigayle
Abigayle was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,877 among girls’ names; 6,190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,120 Americans named Abigayle 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abigayle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Abigayle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Abigayle is “a female given name.”
A variant of Abigail.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Abigayle?
#4,877 among girls’ names, 2025
Abigayle fell from #1,872 in 2015 to #4,877 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 61.1 to 16.8 per million.
354 babies in 2005, the peak
Abigayle peaked in 2005, when 354 girls were given it, #754 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,442 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,562 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,014 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,077 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,814 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,106 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,508 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,594 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,872 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,692 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,509 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,396 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 198 | #1,210 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 215 | #1,136 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 264 | #1,005 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 289 | #939 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 314 | #886 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 351 | #782 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 354 | #754 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 337 | #768 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 350 | #730 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 325 | #746 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 345 | #712 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 323 | #716 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 292 | #757 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 234 | #899 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 184 | #1,035 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 158 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,262 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,007 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,571 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,929 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,487 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,613 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,685 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,075 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,457 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,166 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,517 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,427 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abigayle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abigayle has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Abigayle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abigayle, and how old are they?
6,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,190 Americans ever recorded as Abigayle. The median Abigayle alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,073 people named Abigayle (5,057 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 758 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 809 |
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 Abigayle born?
The states with the most babies named Abigayle are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 469 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 335 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 240 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 234 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 233 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 199 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 184 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 172 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 168 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Abigayle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abigayle is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1968 it was given 1.6 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 Abigayle 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 17,408 babies since 1880, Abigayle is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 91 babies (30%), the second 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 Abigayle
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 Abigayle and names like it
- Compare Abigayle and AbigaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbigayle peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abigayle since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Abigayle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abigayle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.