Meaning not yet researched.
Abbott: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #910 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #910 in 1880; #3,949 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abbott in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,949 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #910.
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Abbott: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #910 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 59 (2017).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Abbott, making it the 3,949th most common boys’ name of the year, down 256 places from #3,693 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 30 boys named Abbott in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #910, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 2017. For comparison, it was #2,685 in 2015 and #2,580 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abbott in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 1,320 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 491 babies named Abbott.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 418 US boys were named Abbott; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Abbot are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Abbot (34).
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 Abbott in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 27 | #3,949 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,693 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,177 |
| 2022 | — | — | 33 | #3,464 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,122 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,202 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,766 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,418 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,240 |
| 2016 | — | — | 59 | #2,255 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,498 | 45 | #2,685 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,936 | 47 | #2,582 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,364 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,891 | 39 | #2,954 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,046 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,239 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #4,924 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,067 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,662 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,094 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,476 | 15 | #5,282 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,540 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,648 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,055 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #10,354 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,875 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,636 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,803 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,639 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,179 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,275 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,315 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,230 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #2,982 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,665 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,257 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,536 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,886 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,449 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,143 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,735 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,067 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,580 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,802 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,669 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,498 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,527 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,242 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,538 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,042 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,872 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,113 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,646 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,680 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,854 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,393 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,368 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,465 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,471 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #2,981 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,698 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,193 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,436 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,408 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,822 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,020 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,486 |
| 1921 | — | — | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,642 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,648 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,280 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,849 |
| 1915 | — | — | 18 | #1,660 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,772 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,822 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,885 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,290 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,440 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #917 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #910 |
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).