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Abigale

#5,555 in 2025Girls' name

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Abigale has been given to 5,892 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #5,555 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 310 recorded.

Babies named Abigale, 2025

1 in 151,000

Abigale over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abigale: meaning, origin, and history

My Father's joy, through Abigail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abigale means

Abigale belongs to the name family reached through Abigale → Abigail. Its meaning is “my Father's joy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Abigale is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,892 girls were recorded with the name Abigale between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 310 in 2003; its best national rank was #797 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,318 in 2020 to #5,555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,793 in 2015 to #5,555 in 2025.

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 Abigale?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,555
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abigale 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abigale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abigales were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abigale was born before 2005 — so the typical Abigale is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,892
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (2,734).

Is Abigale 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
−665
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,237
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,762
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 2003 (310)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#797
2003

Spellings of Abigale

Abigale is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 95.4% against Abigale's 1.4%.

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 Abigale is used

Across 2016–2025, Abigale was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 49,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

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.

Abigale around the world

Where Abigale 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
    1996–2018
    #4,684
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    2004–2004
    #663
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    2001–2013
    #894
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1995–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Abigale by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,237
Best rank ever
#797
2003
Peak year
2003
310 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,892
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Abigale

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

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Names with a curve like Abigale

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

AbagailNyasiaShayleeCaleighKaylahDeasiaJalynnMakailaIyanaEmaleeJaceyAnjali

Sibling names for Abigale

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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