Abbee

Girls' name

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Abbee has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Abbee, 2014

1 in 741,000

Abbee over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abbee: meaning, origin, and history

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abbee means

Abbee belongs to the name family reached through Abbee → Abigail. Its meaning is “my Father's joy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Abbee is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 girls were recorded with the name Abbee between 1988 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,140 in 2006.

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 Abbee?

Abbee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014: 1 in 741,000; 5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,874 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Abbee 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abbee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abbees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abbee was born before 2003 — so the typical Abbee is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 92.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 164; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (94).

Is Abbee 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (17)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,140; 2006

Spellings of Abbee

Abbee is not the most common spelling — Amber is, with 61.6% against Abbee's 0.03%.

Amber61.6%374,690
Abby10.2%61,855
Aimee9.0%54,685
Aubree8.1%49,558
Abbie3.7%22,226
Abbey2.9%17,509
Bree1.5%9,287
Abbi0.34%2,083

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.

Abbee around the world

Where Abbee 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
1996–1999
#3,900
in 1999
South Australia
1990–2009
#818
in 2009

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

Abbee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,140; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 17 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2014
All-time count: 164
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Abbee

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

Abbye Rubee Abbra Abbigal Abba Abbi Colbee Abbigael Barbee Abbagale Kobee Kolbee Abbygale Abbegail Abbott Abbe Bee Abbegale Abbygael Abbagayle Abbiegail Abbey Tybee Abbigaile

Sibling names for Abbee

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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