Abra
Abra was given to 8 girls in 2025, #10,920 among girls’ names; 1,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abra?
#10,920 among girls’ names, 2025
Abra rose from #11,839 in 2015 to #10,920 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
65 babies in 1983, the peak
Abra peaked in 1983, when 65 girls were given it, #1,689 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,920 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,440 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,614 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,226 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,234 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,407 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,478 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,761 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,089 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,876 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #11,839 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,486 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,712 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,350 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,717 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,603 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,827 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,616 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,839 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,186 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,797 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,452 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,195 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,689 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,797 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,017 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,580 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,765 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,570 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,665 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,681 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,863 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,115 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,593 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,254 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,723 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,007 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,676 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,689 | 38.9 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,900 | 33.1 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,767 | 37.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,852 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,776 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,242 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,424 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,539 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,513 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,922 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,585 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,177 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,787 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,711 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,618 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #3,999 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,624 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,288 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,635 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,018 | 5.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,308 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,519 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,466 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,207 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abra, and how old are they?
An estimated 982 Americans named Abra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 27 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,124 people named Abra (1,061 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 912 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,824 babies since 1880, Abra is the third most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 98 babies (8.2%), again the third most given.
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 Abra
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 Abra and names like it
- Compare Abra and AubriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAbra peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abra since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Abra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Abra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.