Meaning not yet researched.
Abbigail: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #458 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #458 in 2009; #3,780 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abbigail in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,780 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #458.
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Abbigail: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #458 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 676 (2009).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Abbigail, making it the 3,780th most common girls’ name of the year, up 184 places from #3,964 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 37 girls named Abbigail in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #458, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 676. For comparison, it was #1,025 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abbigail in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 12,159 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,879 babies named Abbigail.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,078 US girls were named Abbigail; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Abigail (413,935 babies since 1880), Abagail (5,898 babies since 1880), Abbygail (3,633 babies since 1880) and Abygail (2,860 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abbygael, Abbeygail and Abbygaile are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Abbe, Abbey, Abbi, Abbie, Abby and Gail.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Abbygael (70), Abbeygail (66), Abbygaile (47), Abbygayl (6).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 2017 | 180 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2016 | 224 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 2015 | 261 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2014 | 322 | #855 | — | — |
| 2013 | 364 | #747 | — | — |
| 2012 | 462 | #619 | — | — |
| 2011 | 570 | #514 | — | — |
| 2010 | 590 | #508 | — | — |
| 2009 | 676 | #458 | — | — |
| 2008 | 608 | #510 | — | — |
| 2007 | 653 | #495 | — | — |
| 2006 | 631 | #490 | — | — |
| 2005 | 601 | #502 | — | — |
| 2004 | 553 | #519 | 5 | #11,361 |
| 2003 | 555 | #515 | — | — |
| 2002 | 578 | #484 | — | — |
| 2001 | 544 | #505 | — | — |
| 2000 | 475 | #549 | — | — |
| 1999 | 396 | #612 | — | — |
| 1998 | 392 | #613 | — | — |
| 1997 | 310 | #693 | — | — |
| 1996 | 278 | #759 | — | — |
| 1995 | 232 | #842 | — | — |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,889 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,296 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,776 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,424 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,480 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,006 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,363 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,539 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,767 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,578 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,245 | — | — |
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).