girls:
1.3k births since 1949
#4399 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1949
#6418 (17th percentile)
The name Abbe is the #6,418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,325 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 17.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,399 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,325 births since 1949.
Abbe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (first recorded for girls in 1949). Birth data for Abbe is available in 61 out of the 66 years between 1949 and 2014. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Abbe reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #692) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 38 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abbe".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Abbe", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Abby" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Abby..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Abbe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.2% confident that Abbe is pronounced as A-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is a-BAY, at 29.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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