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Abbi

#11,938 in 2025Girls' name

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Abbi has been given to 2,083 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #11,938 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Abbi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Abbi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abbi: meaning, origin, and history

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abbi means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Abbi is used in English and Old Saxon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,083 girls were recorded with the name Abbi between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,844 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,923 in 2020 to #11,938 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,460 in 2015 to #11,938 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abbi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,938
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abbi 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abbi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abbis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abbi was born before 1999 — so the typical Abbi is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,083
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (668).

Is Abbi 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
+227
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,015
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,478
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.0%
Peak was 2003 (100)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,844
2003

Spellings of Abbi

Abbi is not the most common spelling — Abby is, with 26.1% against Abbi's 0.88%.

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 Abbi is used

Across 1910–2025, Abbi was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 222,310 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Utah1 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. Abbi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abbi around the world

Where Abbi 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
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1990–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2012
    #451
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1999–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1996–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Abbi

People whose public names include Abbi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Abbi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Abbi. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbiAbbyAbbeyAbbieAbigailAbigaille

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Abbi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,015
Best rank ever
#1,844
2003
Peak year
2003
100 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,083
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Abbi

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

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Names with a curve like Abbi

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

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Sibling names for Abbi

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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