girls:
22k births since 1880
#965 (83rd percentile)
boys:
330 births since 1887
#4256 (7th percentile)
overall:
22.3k births since 1880
#1700 (78th percentile)
The name Abbie is the #1,700 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,300 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #965 (83.1% percentile) for all time with 21,970 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,256 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 330 births since 1887.
Abbie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1887 for boys).
The name Abbie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Abbie reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #458) with 266 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 819 births per million (ranked 31.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Abbie ranks #862 for girls (9.0% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Abbie reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #514) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abbie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Abbie", 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 found one way to pronounce the name Abbie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Abbie is pronounced as A-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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