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Abba

#7,190 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Abba has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #7,190 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.

Babies named Abba, 2025

1 in 301,000

Abba over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Abba over time

In 2025, Abba went to 31% girls and 69% boys.

19242025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Abba: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abba means

Abba is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abba is used in Old English and Old Saxon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Abba is pronounced /ˈɑb.bɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 boys were recorded with the name Abba between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,190 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,092 in 2015 to #7,190 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Abba between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,432 in 1924.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abba?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,190
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abbas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abba was born before 2018 — so the typical Abba is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Abba 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
+67
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,902
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (11)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,190
2025

Spellings of Abba

Abba is not the most common spelling — Abel is, with 44.1% against Abba's 0.06%.

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 Abba is used

Across 1910–2025, Abba was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 391,878 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Abba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abba around the world

Where Abba 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
    2013–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1991–2021
    #6,420
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abba by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,190
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,190
2025
Peak year
2024
11 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,432
1924
Peak year
1924
6 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Abba

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

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Sibling names for Abba

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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