Aby
Aby was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,361 among girls’ names; 340 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aby?
#8,361 among girls’ names, 2025
Aby fell from #7,269 in 2015 to #8,361 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 7.5 per million.
20 babies in 2005, the peak
Aby peaked in 2005, when 20 babies were given it (9 girls, #10,921 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,361 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,557 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,056 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,248 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,562 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,103 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,455 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,808 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,624 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,340 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,269 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,206 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,004 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,434 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,781 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,456 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,339 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,964 | 6 | #11,048 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,540 | 8 | #8,923 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,286 | 6 | #10,671 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,921 | 11 | #6,635 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,694 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #7,837 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,195 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,315 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,043 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,413 | 5 | #9,921 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,119 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,787 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,435 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,421 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,393 | 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 Aby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 340 Americans recorded as Aby, 84% are girls and 16% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aby, and how old are they?
An estimated 336 Americans named Aby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 912 people named Aby (595 women and girls, 317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Aby rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 84,274 babies since 1880, Aby is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 429 babies (2.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Aby
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 Aby and names like it
- Compare Aby and AbbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAby peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aby since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Aby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.