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Abiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,503 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,503 in 2024; #1,688 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,688 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,503.
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Abiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,503 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 119 (2024).
In 2025, 97 US boys were named Abiel, making it the 1,688th most common boys’ name of the year, down 185 places from #1,503 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 119 boys named Abiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,503, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #2,019 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abiel in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,645 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 593 babies named Abiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 622 US boys were named Abiel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Abiel ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #604 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abel (66,198 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Ab.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #604 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #691 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,250 | #971 |
| New York | 8 | #1,299 | #1,623 |
| California | 12 | #1,440 | #1,541 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,626 | #1,686 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 97 | #1,688 |
| 2024 | — | — | 119 | #1,503 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,805 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,920 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,123 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,925 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,421 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,386 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,926 | 67 | #2,065 |
| 2016 | — | — | 63 | #2,168 |
| 2015 | — | — | 71 | #2,019 |
| 2014 | — | — | 50 | #2,492 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,567 | 65 | #2,066 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,978 | 53 | #2,380 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,590 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,429 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,528 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,846 | 40 | #2,947 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,652 | 57 | #2,281 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,400 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #3,942 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,159 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,280 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,022 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,478 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,641 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,104 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,851 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,352 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,203 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,510 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,096 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,229 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,670 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,099 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #3,971 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,166 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,164 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #3,960 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #3,884 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,151 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,565 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,241 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,007 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,472 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,498 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,403 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,848 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,589 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,798 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,102 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #4,988 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,908 |
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).