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Abbigail

#3,779 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Abigail

Abbigail has been given to 12,159 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #3,779 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 676 recorded.

Babies named Abbigail, 2025

1 in 85,000

Abbigail over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abbigail: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Abigail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abbigail means

Abbigail is a variant of Abigail.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Abbigail → Abigail. The family’s meaning is “my Father's joy”, recorded in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Abbigail is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,154 girls were recorded with the name Abbigail between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 676 in 2009; its best national rank was #458 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,977 in 2020 to #3,779 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,025 in 2015 to #3,779 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Abbigail between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #11,354 in 2004.

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 Abbigail?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,779
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abbigail 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abbigail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abbigails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abbigail was born before 2006 — so the typical Abbigail is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,154
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (5,874).

Is Abbigail 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
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,802
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,754
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.8%
Peak was 2009 (676)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#458
2009

Spellings of Abbigail

Abbigail is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 92.2% against Abbigail's 2.7%.

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 Abbigail is used

Across 2016–2025, Abbigail was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 18,019 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,692
  2. 2Missouri1 in 7,692
  3. 3Indiana1 in 9,091
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 10,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 10,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  7. 7Michigan1 in 12,500
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 14,286

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.

Abbigail around the world

Where Abbigail 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1994–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1999–2013
    #747
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Abbigail in other languages

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

AbigailAbygailAbbygail

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

Abbigail by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,779
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,802
Best rank ever
#458
2009
Peak year
2009
676 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,154
Count in 2025
39

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,354
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abbigail

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

AbbygailAbbagailAbbegailAbbigaleAbbiegailAbbeyAbbygaleAbagailAbbieAbygailAbbeygailAvigailAbbigayleAbbyAbbiAbbygayleAbigailAbbigaelAbbagaleAbbegaleAbbigalAbbygaelAbegailAbbe

Names with a curve like Abbigail

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

MadysonIsisJaidaHaylieJazmynMaceyAllyEmmaleeLeslyKaileeAbigaleAmerica

Sibling names for Abbigail

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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