Abigal
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Abigal has been given to 797 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 2005, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Abigal, 2024
1 in 371,000
Abigal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Abigal?
Abigal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 180,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Abigal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abigal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Abigals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Abigal was born before 2003 — so the typical Abigal is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 797
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (320).
Is Abigal 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 2005 (38)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Abigal
Abigal is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 90.5% against Abigal's 0.17%.
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 Abigal is used
Across 1910–2025, Abigal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,270,785 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Abigal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Abigal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Abigal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Abigal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.