In 2025, 22 US girls were named Abigale, making it the 5,556th most common girls’ name of the year, down 663 places from #4,893 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 27 girls named Abigale in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #797, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #1,793 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abigale in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 5,892 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,734 babies named Abigale.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 563 US girls were named Abigale; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 106. 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), Abigayle (6,190 babies since 1880), Abbigale (2,188 babies since 1880) and Abigael (1,964 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abbygale, Abbagale and Abbegale are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Abbe, Abbey, Abbi, Abbie, Abby and Gail.