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Abygail

#6,324 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Abygail has been given to 2,860 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #6,324 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Abygail, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abygail: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Abygail means

Abygail is a given name.

The naming story behind Abygail

Wikidata records Abygail as a given name. The entity identifier is Q139477436, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,860 girls were recorded with the name Abygail between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,334 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,498 in 2020 to #6,324 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,850 in 2015 to #6,324 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.

How common is Abygail?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,324
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abygail 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abygail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abygails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abygail was born before 2009 — so the typical Abygail is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,860
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,273).

Is Abygail 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
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,826
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,474
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.16×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 2009 (180)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,334
2009

Spellings of Abygail

Abygail is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 92.9% against Abygail's 0.64%.

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 Abygail is used

Across 1910–2025, Abygail was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 92,725 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 100,000

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. Abygail has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abygail around the world

Where Abygail 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
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1996–2025
    #3,435
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2023
    #2,222
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abygail in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Abygail. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbigailAbbigailAbbygail

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Abygail by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,324
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,826
Best rank ever
#1,334
2009
Peak year
2009
180 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,860
Count in 2025
18

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

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Names with a curve like Abygail

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

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Sibling names for Abygail

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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