girls:
17.5k births since 1917
#1124 (80th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1914
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
17.5k births since 1914
#1950 (75th percentile)
The name Abbey is the #1,950 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,501 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 74.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,124 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 17,466 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1914.
Abbey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Abbey is available in 89 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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.
The name Abbey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1917, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1914 to 1916), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.8% girls from 1917 to 2023).
For girls, Abbey reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 58.5% percentile (ranked #368) with 365 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 365 births per million (ranked 58.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Abbey ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Abbey reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #606) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abbey".
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