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Avigail

#2,122 in 2025Girls' name

My Father's joy

Avigail has been given to 2,217 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,122 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Avigail, 2025

1 in 37,700

Avigail over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avigail: meaning, origin, and history

My Father's joy

Hebrew

What Avigail means

Avigail means “my Father's joy”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל (avigáyil, “Avigail”, literally “my Father's joy” or “fountain of joy”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Avigail (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Avigail is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Avigail comes through Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abigail.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,217 girls were recorded with the name Avigail between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,787 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,991 in 2020 to #2,122 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,985 in 2015 to #2,122 in 2025.

How common is Avigail?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,122
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avigail 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avigail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avigails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avigail was born before 2013 — so the typical Avigail is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (841).

Is Avigail 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
+372
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−131
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−137
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.9%
Peak was 2016 (116)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,787
2016

Spellings of Avigail

Avigail is not the most common spelling — Abigail is, with 93.5% against Avigail's 0.50%.

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 Avigail is used

Across 2016–2025, Avigail was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 11,701 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2New York1 in 4,348
  3. 3Florida1 in 11,111
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Washington1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 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.

Avigail around the world

Where Avigail 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
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1983–2025
    #4,318
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #3,197
    in 2023

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

Avigail in other languages

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

AbigaelAbigailAbigayleAbigailleAbigélAbigaëlle

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

Avigail by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,122
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 131
Best rank ever
#1,787
2016
Peak year
2016
116 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,217
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Avigail

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

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Names with a curve like Avigail

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

ZaydaAoifeAminataAislynnSumayaMarwaAlyanaIllianaArmoniEternityHawaKavya

Sibling names for Avigail

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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