Meaning not yet researched.
Abby: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 379 in 2025. Its best rank was #163 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #163 in 2001; #731 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abby in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#731 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #163.
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Abby: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 379 girls in 2025. Peak: #163 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 2,048 (2003).
In 2025, 379 US girls were named Abby, making it the 731st most common girls’ name of the year, down 107 places from #624 in 2024. That is 99 fewer than the 478 girls named Abby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #163, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,048, in 2003. For comparison, it was #434 in 2015 and #1,115 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abby in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 62,036 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,261 babies named Abby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,675 US girls were named Abby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 727. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,241 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Abby ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #390 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abigail (413,935 babies since 1880), Abbie (22,556 babies since 1880), Abbi (2,083 babies since 1880) and Abbey (17,544 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abie, Abi and Aby are summarised on this page.
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: Abie (800), Abi (654), Aby (340), Abbye (184), Abbee (164), Abia (108), Abey (27), Abiya (16), Abiy (9).
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 Abby in the open dataset we use.
Abby is listed as a nickname for Abbigail, Abbigale, Abigail, Abigale.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 8 | #390 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #393 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #405 | — |
| New Jersey | 16 | #470 | #711 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #534 | #410 |
| Utah | 7 | #539 | #310 |
| Florida | 32 | #555 | #459 |
| Missouri | 10 | #556 | #395 |
| New York | 28 | #585 | #351 |
| Virginia | 12 | #606 | #411 |
| Oregon | 5 | #619 | #382 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #626 | #670 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #645 | #437 |
| Maryland | 7 | #651 | #379 |
| California | 47 | #662 | #333 |
| Washington | 9 | #679 | #699 |
| Texas | 44 | #684 | #520 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #688 | #422 |
| Indiana | 8 | #721 | #530 |
| Illinois | 12 | #748 | #536 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #780 | #450 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #836 | #471 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #871 | #481 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,134 | #537 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,211 | #775 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,360 | #336 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 379 | #731 | — | — |
| 2024 | 478 | #624 | — | — |
| 2023 | 475 | #624 | — | — |
| 2022 | 510 | #587 | — | — |
| 2021 | 524 | #576 | — | — |
| 2020 | 597 | #509 | — | — |
| 2019 | 624 | #505 | — | — |
| 2018 | 658 | #474 | — | — |
| 2017 | 703 | #451 | — | — |
| 2016 | 727 | #442 | — | — |
| 2015 | 728 | #434 | — | — |
| 2014 | 843 | #388 | — | — |
| 2013 | 907 | #352 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,038 | #309 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,065 | #295 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,149 | #284 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,281 | #255 | 5 | #12,498 |
| 2008 | 1,332 | #259 | 5 | #12,561 |
| 2007 | 1,579 | #220 | 8 | #8,921 |
| 2006 | 1,686 | #205 | 6 | #10,665 |
| 2005 | 1,754 | #198 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,024 | #166 | 20 | #4,265 |
| 2003 | 2,048 | #164 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,961 | #166 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,986 | #163 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,566 | #205 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,810 | #174 | 8 | #7,139 |
| 1998 | 1,608 | #194 | 6 | #8,479 |
| 1997 | 1,565 | #192 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,419 | #207 | 7 | #7,138 |
| 1995 | 1,378 | #209 | 5 | #8,872 |
| 1994 | 1,372 | #213 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,176 | #240 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,081 | #260 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,174 | #237 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,293 | #222 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,274 | #212 | 7 | #6,231 |
| 1988 | 1,222 | #213 | 8 | #5,201 |
| 1987 | 1,052 | #245 | 8 | #4,969 |
| 1986 | 1,120 | #232 | 5 | #6,725 |
| 1985 | 1,207 | #213 | 7 | #5,149 |
| 1984 | 1,263 | #208 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,310 | #200 | 5 | #6,238 |
| 1982 | 1,299 | #210 | 6 | #5,622 |
| 1981 | 1,211 | #218 | 6 | #5,469 |
| 1980 | 930 | #268 | 5 | #6,251 |
| 1979 | 791 | #302 | — | — |
| 1978 | 619 | #349 | 5 | #5,775 |
| 1977 | 279 | #607 | 5 | #5,846 |
| 1976 | 256 | #611 | — | — |
| 1975 | 240 | #639 | — | — |
| 1974 | 220 | #677 | — | — |
| 1973 | 191 | #734 | — | — |
| 1972 | 167 | #808 | — | — |
| 1971 | 204 | #735 | — | — |
| 1970 | 171 | #810 | — | — |
| 1969 | 148 | #854 | — | — |
| 1968 | 134 | #887 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #779 | — | — |
| 1966 | 187 | #717 | — | — |
| 1965 | 222 | #660 | — | — |
| 1964 | 217 | #703 | — | — |
| 1963 | 236 | #657 | — | — |
| 1962 | 286 | #584 | — | — |
| 1961 | 236 | #672 | — | — |
| 1960 | 241 | #653 | 6 | #3,666 |
| 1959 | 176 | #768 | — | — |
| 1958 | 154 | #811 | — | — |
| 1957 | 169 | #767 | — | — |
| 1956 | 117 | #934 | — | — |
| 1955 | 108 | #949 | — | — |
| 1954 | 108 | #926 | — | — |
| 1953 | 85 | #1,050 | 5 | #3,798 |
| 1952 | 95 | #966 | — | — |
| 1951 | 82 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1950 | 68 | #1,115 | 5 | #3,681 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,357 | 8 | #2,862 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,337 | 5 | #3,528 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,162 | 5 | #3,561 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,721 | 5 | #4,201 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,409 | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #955 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #796 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #950 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #894 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #897 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #930 | — | — |
| 1882 | 11 | #560 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #679 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #738 | — | — |
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).