Able — #5243 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Able

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,096 babies named Able between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Able currently holds the #5243 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Able performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 346 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Able shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Able in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Able 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 1,096 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.