Abiola — unisex name

What the Data Says About Abiola

The Social Security Administration has registered 183 babies named Abiola between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Abiola currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Abiola is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 50 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Abiola performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 57 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Abiola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Abiola in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Abiola 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 183 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.