How rare is the name Abbie?

16,365 people in the United States have the first name Abbie, about 1 in 18,456. It ranks #1,809 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ABBIE

#1,809

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
16,365
About
1 in 18,456
This common or more
77.1%
Who bears it

Of the 16,365 people named Abbie, 83.2% reported their origin as White, 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.2% as Black. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Abbie peaked in 2003, when 537 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
537
In 2025*
125 ▼77%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 22,556 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Abbie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #338. The largest share of babies named Abbie, 30.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#338934
1890s#3921,143
1900s#577831
1910s#9641,201
1920s#1,2271,187
1930s#1,514687
1940s#1,940554
1950s#1,735940
1960s#2,059769
1970s#1,987976
1980s#1,2722,451
1990s#1,2093,406
2000s#1,1364,635
2010s#2,0372,230
2020s#3,516612
Before 19019.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2712.9%
Silent Generation 1928–455.4%
Baby boom 1946–647.1%
Generation X 1965–806.7%
Millennials 1981–9619.6%
Generation Z 1997–1230.4%
2013 and later8.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Abbie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Abbie has been most common in Utah (3.4×), Alabama (2.7×), and Nebraska (2.3×), and least common in New Jersey (0.14×).

13,711 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Abbie, most common first.

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