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Abegail

Girls' name

Variant of Abigail

Abegail has been given to 515 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2000, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Abegail, 2019

1 in 496,000

Abegail over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abegail: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Abigail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abegail means

Abegail is a variant of Abigail.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Abegail is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæb.ɪ.ɡeɪl/ for Abegail.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 515 girls were recorded with the name Abegail between 1981 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,660 in 2000.

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 Abegail?

Abegail had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abegail 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abegail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abegails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abegail was born before 2004 — so the typical Abegail is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
515
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Abegail 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
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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 2000 (35)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,660
2000

Spellings of Abegail

Abegail is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 92.9% against Abegail's 0.12%.

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 Abegail is used

Across 1910–2025, Abegail was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 764,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Abegail has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abegail around the world

Where Abegail 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.

  • Canada
    1996–2007
    #2,743
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abegail 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
#3,660
2000
Peak year
2000
35 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
515
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abegail

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

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Sibling names for Abegail

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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