Abiola
Abiola was last recorded in 2023, when 12 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abiola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abiola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,468, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2006, the peak
Abiola peaked in 2006, when 14 babies were given it (9 girls, #11,422 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,468 | 6 | #10,828 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,270 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,358 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,147 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,245 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,499 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,131 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,566 | 5 | #12,148 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,888 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,605 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,008 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,419 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,422 | 5 | #12,063 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,506 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #9,955 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,060 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,118 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,837 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,802 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,485 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,266 | 5 | #8,233 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,407 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,846 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,687 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,822 | 5 | #6,949 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,722 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,411 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,528 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,650 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,340 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Abiola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 233 Americans recorded as Abiola, 79% are girls and 21% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Abiola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abiola, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Abiola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,229 people named Abiola (860 women and girls, 369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.8 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,326 babies since 1880, Abiola is the second most given (18% of them).
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 Abiola
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 Abiola and names like it
- Compare Abiola and AbellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbiola peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abiola since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Abiola.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abiola alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.