Meaning not yet researched.
Abigael: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,142 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,142 in 2002; #5,555 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Abigael in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,555 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #2,142.
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Abigael: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,142 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 84 (2009).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Abigael, making it the 5,555th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,662 places from #3,893 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 38 girls named Abigael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,142, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 84, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,595 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abigael in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 1,964 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 720 babies named Abigael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 395 US girls were named Abigael; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Abigail (413,935 babies since 1880), Avigail (2,217 babies since 1880), Abbigail (12,159 babies since 1880) and Abigayle (6,190 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 Abigael 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 | 22 | #5,555 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,170 | — | — |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,666 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,397 | 5 | #11,374 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,650 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,380 | — | — |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,848 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,278 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,354 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,751 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,461 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,411 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,095 | — | — |
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).