Avigail
Avigail was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,122 among girls’ names; 2,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Avigail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avigail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avigail mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avigail is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Abigail.” Its etymology gives the senses “Avigail” (avigáyil,) and “my Father's joy” (literally) and “fountain of joy” (or).
Borrowed from Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל (avigáyil, “Avigail”, literally “my Father’s joy” or “fountain of joy”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avigail?
#2,122 among girls’ names, 2025
Avigail fell from #1,985 in 2015 to #2,122 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.0 to 54.8 per million.
116 babies in 2016, the peak
Avigail peaked in 2016, when 116 girls were given it, #1,787 among girls’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,122 | 54.8 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,494 | 44.4 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,496 | 44.2 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,562 | 42.1 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,271 | 49.4 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,991 | 58.1 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,437 | 43.5 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,221 | 48.8 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,878 | 62.6 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,787 | 65.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,985 | 56.0 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,215 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,097 | 51.9 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,050 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,728 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,699 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,288 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,022 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,397 | 41.1 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,608 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,900 | 30.3 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,075 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,136 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,152 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,095 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,945 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,720 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,354 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,026 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,433 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,684 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,619 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,103 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,678 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,508 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,926 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,993 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,326 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,855 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,780 | 7.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,368 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,641 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,214 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,526 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,874 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,505 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,081 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avigail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avigail has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avigail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avigail, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,217 Americans ever recorded as Avigail. The median Avigail alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,771 people named Avigail (1,756 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,750 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 205 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 845 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
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 Avigail born?
The states with the most babies named Avigail are New York, New Jersey and California, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #912 | 3.8× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #540 | 2.3× |
| California | 12 | #1,757 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,564 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 5 | #927 | 0.1× |
Where Avigail is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avigail is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 3.8 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 Avigail with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,986 babies since 1880, Avigail is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 114 babies (77%), again the 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 Avigail
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 Avigail and names like it
- Compare Avigail and AvigayilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvigail peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avigail since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Avigail.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avigail alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.