Meaning not yet researched.
Abbey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #392 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #392 in 1999; #5,724 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abbey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,724 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #392.
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Abbey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #392 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 710 (1999).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Abbey, making it the 5,724th most common girls’ name of the year, down 108 places from #5,616 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 22 girls named Abbey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #392, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 710. For comparison, it was #1,416 in 2015 and #4,316 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abbey in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 17,544 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,614 babies named Abbey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 598 US girls were named Abbey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 139. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Abby (62,036 babies since 1880), Abbie (22,556 babies since 1880), Abe (9,694 babies since 1880) and Abbi (2,083 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Abbey in the open dataset we use.
Abbey is listed as a nickname for Abbigail, Abbigale, Abigail, Abigale.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,616 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,170 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,647 | — | — |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2016 | 139 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2015 | 163 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2013 | 222 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2012 | 253 | #999 | — | — |
| 2011 | 290 | #898 | — | — |
| 2010 | 299 | #886 | — | — |
| 2009 | 307 | #893 | — | — |
| 2008 | 344 | #825 | — | — |
| 2007 | 349 | #822 | — | — |
| 2006 | 404 | #703 | — | — |
| 2005 | 453 | #621 | — | — |
| 2004 | 505 | #567 | 6 | #9,953 |
| 2003 | 625 | #474 | — | — |
| 2002 | 600 | #472 | — | — |
| 2001 | 688 | #416 | — | — |
| 2000 | 660 | #425 | — | — |
| 1999 | 710 | #392 | 6 | #8,707 |
| 1998 | 662 | #408 | — | — |
| 1997 | 646 | #406 | — | — |
| 1996 | 552 | #454 | — | — |
| 1995 | 549 | #460 | — | — |
| 1994 | 597 | #420 | — | — |
| 1993 | 503 | #496 | — | — |
| 1992 | 430 | #545 | — | — |
| 1991 | 451 | #515 | — | — |
| 1990 | 508 | #481 | — | — |
| 1989 | 470 | #500 | — | — |
| 1988 | 404 | #539 | — | — |
| 1987 | 327 | #597 | — | — |
| 1986 | 370 | #548 | — | — |
| 1985 | 314 | #603 | — | — |
| 1984 | 357 | #538 | — | — |
| 1983 | 420 | #475 | — | — |
| 1982 | 370 | #529 | — | — |
| 1981 | 383 | #514 | — | — |
| 1980 | 273 | #659 | — | — |
| 1979 | 255 | #675 | — | — |
| 1978 | 176 | #842 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1974 | 62 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,577 | 7 | #3,066 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,316 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,295 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,994 | 6 | #3,174 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,194 | — | — |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,459 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,343 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,411 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,099 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,264 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).