first name
ABBY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 72,431 people named Abby, 83.1% reported their origin as White, 9% as Hispanic or Latino and 2.9% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Abby peaked in 2003, when 2,048 babies got the name.
At least 62,036 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.
Abby by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #409. The largest share of babies named Abby, 41.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Abby is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Abby has been most common in South Dakota (2.3×), Utah (2.2×), and Iowa (2.2×), and least common in Vermont (0.3×).
58,610 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 Abby
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Abby, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Abby ranks #59,236 of 156,621, with 369 people. See Abby as a last name
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