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Abela

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Abela has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2010. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Abela, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abela: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abela means

Abela is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abela is used in Icelandic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Abela between 2010 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #14,494 in 2015.

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 Abela?

Abela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abela 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abela was born before 2015 — so the typical Abela is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Abela 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 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#14,494
2015

Spellings of Abela

Abela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 30.0% against Abela's <0.01%.

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.

Abela around the world

Where Abela 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
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1903–1903
    #983
    in 1903

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.

Abela 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
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Best rank ever
#14,494
2015
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abela

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

ImelaFaelaGaelaSaelaXaelaAbeyAbeeraAberyVaelaAbellAbelTielaJoelaZarelaAmielaNaelaBuelaLyelaSeelaBaelaTrelaCanelaIsmaelaTaela

Sibling names for Abela

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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