Abilene
Abilene was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,064 among girls’ names; 1,674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Abilene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abilene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abilene?
#2,064 among girls’ names, 2025
Abilene rose from #2,590 in 2015 to #2,064 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.7 to 56.6 per million.
102 babies in 2024, the peak
Abilene peaked in 2024, when 102 girls were given it, #1,942 among girls’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,064 | 56.6 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,942 | 63.0 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,195 | 53.6 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,689 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,608 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,891 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,400 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,558 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,161 | 51.0 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,084 | 53.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,590 | 38.7 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,324 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,902 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,597 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,266 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,159 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,800 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,088 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,991 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,986 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,535 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,083 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,684 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,646 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,481 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,796 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,368 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,579 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,638 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,840 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #4,993 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,045 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,654 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,497 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,952 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,316 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,775 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,768 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abilene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abilene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abilene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abilene, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,674 Americans ever recorded as Abilene. The median Abilene alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,149 people named Abilene (1,149 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 148 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 549 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 958 |
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 Abilene born?
The states with the most babies named Abilene are Texas, Virginia and Georgia, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,038 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 9 | #758 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,077 | 0.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,489 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 6 | #789 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,151 | 0.2× |
Where Abilene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abilene is most over-represented in Texas: since 1964 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 Abilene with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abilene
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.
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