How rare is the name Abbigail?

9,864 people in the United States have the first name Abbigail, about 1 in 30,620. It ranks #2,490 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ABBIGAIL

#2,490

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,864
About
1 in 30,620
This common or more
80%
Who bears it

Of the 9,864 people named Abbigail, 81.9% reported their origin as White, 9% as Hispanic or Latino and 5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Abbigail peaked in 2009, when 676 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19592025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
676
In 2025*
39 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,159 babies have been given the name since 1959. 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.

Abbigail by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #948. The largest share of babies named Abbigail, 70.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#14,8235
1960s#11,77823
1970s#7,961107
1980s#4,056385
1990s#1,6412,113
2000s#9485,879
2010s#1,5653,277
2020s#4,849370
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.2%
Millennials 1981–9611.3%
Generation Z 1997–1270.7%
2013 and later16.7%

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 Abbigail is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Abbigail has been most common in Utah (2.2×), Arkansas (1.9×), and Missouri (1.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.12×).

10,238 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.

Either side of Abbigail

#2,488 Hal · 9,875#2,489 Emersyn · 9,870#2,491 Hui · 9,857#2,492 Ruthie · 9,841

Spelled almost the same

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

#146 Abigail · 342,490#3,574 Abagail · 5,749#6,028 Abbygail · 2,725#6,143 Abigal · 2,645#7,126 Abygail · 2,166#7,480 Abigael · 2,038#8,126 Abbigale · 1,799#11,789 Abbigayle · 1,073

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