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Abagail

#7,887 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Abagail has been given to 5,898 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #7,887 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 321 recorded.

Babies named Abagail, 2025

1 in 255,000

Abagail over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abagail: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abagail means

Abagail is a given name.

The naming story behind Abagail

Wikidata records Abagail as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123785787, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,898 girls were recorded with the name Abagail between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 321 in 2008; its best national rank was #868 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,221 in 2020 to #7,887 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,937 in 2015 to #7,887 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Abagail?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,887
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abagail sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abagail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abagails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abagail was born before 2005 — so the typical Abagail is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,898
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (2,774).

Is Abagail rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,275
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,666
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,950
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.0%
Peak was 2008 (321)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#868
2008

Spellings of Abagail

Abagail is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 92.9% against Abagail's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Abagail is used

Across 2016–2025, Abagail was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 93,687 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Abagail around the world

Where Abagail ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2000
    #2,746
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1997–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1995–2016
    #1,993
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1961–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abagail by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,887
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,666
Best rank ever
#868
2008
Peak year
2008
321 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,898
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Abagail

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Abagail

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Abagail, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Abagail

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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