Abilene
#2,064 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Abilene has been given to 1,674 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,064 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 102 recorded.
Babies named Abilene, 2025
1 in 36,400
Abilene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Abilene?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,400
- 91 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,064
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 25,253 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Abilene sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abilene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Abilenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Abilene was born before 2015 — so the typical Abilene is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,674
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (670).
Is Abilene 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
- −122
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +827
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +526
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.32×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.2%
- Peak was 2024 (102)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Spellings of Abilene
Abilene is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 71.9% against Abilene's 0.84%.
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 Abilene is used
Across 2016–2025, Abilene was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 26,973 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 12,500
- 2Colorado1 in 20,000
- 3Georgia1 in 25,000
- 4Florida1 in 33,333
- 5Virginia1 in 33,333
- 6California1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 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.
Abilene around the world
Where Abilene 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 & Wales2014–2023#5,688in 2023
- Canada2016–2023#2,049in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Abilene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Abilene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Abilene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.