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Abiel

#1,688 in 2025Boys' name

God is my father

Abiel has been given to 1,645 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,688 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Abiel, 2025

1 in 34,200

Abiel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abiel: meaning, origin, and history

God is my father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abiel means

Abiel means “God is my father”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,617 boys were recorded with the name Abiel between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,503 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,924 in 2020 to #1,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,019 in 2015 to #1,688 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Abiel between 2007 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2008; its best national rank was #13,841 in 2008.

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.

How common is Abiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,688
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abiel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abiel was born before 2012 — so the typical Abiel is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,617
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (577).

Is Abiel 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
−185
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,236
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+331
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.37×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2024 (119)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,503
2024

Spellings of Abiel

Abiel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 62.1% against Abiel's 0.05%.

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 Abiel is used

Across 2016–2025, Abiel was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 22,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

27 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6Oregon1 in 33,333
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Abiel around the world

Where Abiel 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
    2003–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #701
    in 2009
  • France
    2016–2025
    #6,610
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Abiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,236
Best rank ever
#1,503
2024
Peak year
2024
119 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,617
Count in 2025
97

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,841
2008
Peak year
2008
7 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Abiel

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

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Sibling names for Abiel

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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