Abygail
Abygail was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,324 among girls’ names; 2,860 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Abygail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abygail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abygail?
#6,324 among girls’ names, 2025
Abygail fell from #1,850 in 2015 to #6,324 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 62.2 to 11.2 per million.
180 babies in 2009, the peak
Abygail peaked in 2009, when 180 girls were given it, #1,334 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,393 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,388 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,089 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,498 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,272 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,510 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,283 | 46.9 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,757 | 66.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,850 | 62.2 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,096 | 51.5 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,646 | 73.5 |
| 2012 | 156 | #1,457 | 88.6 |
| 2011 | 155 | #1,455 | 88.1 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,456 | 87.2 |
| 2009 | 180 | #1,334 | 98.0 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,405 | 89.4 |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,387 | 90.0 |
| 2006 | 165 | #1,381 | 86.8 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,598 | 68.7 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,553 | 69.2 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,742 | 59.1 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,932 | 50.6 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,457 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,232 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,672 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,065 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,445 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,710 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,083 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,786 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,259 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,647 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,970 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,409 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,797 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,327 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,776 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Abygail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abygail has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abygail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abygail, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,860 Americans ever recorded as Abygail. The median Abygail alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,166 people named Abygail (2,164 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,685 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 808 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Abygail born?
The states with the most babies named Abygail are California, Texas and Florida, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 392 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 369 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 119 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Abygail is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abygail is most over-represented in Texas: since 1974 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abygail with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Abygail?
Abygail is a less common spelling of Abigail: SSA has recorded 2,860 Abygail and 413,935 Abigail since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 442,118 babies since 1880, Abygail is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 5,050 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Abygail
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 Abygail and names like it
- Compare Abygail and AbigailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAbygail peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Abygail since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Abygail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Abygail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.