girls:
12.1k births since 1959
#1428 (75th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2004
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
12.1k births since 1959
#2391 (69th percentile)
The name Abbigail is the #2,391 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,081 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 69.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,428 (75.0% percentile) for all time with 12,076 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Abbigail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Abbigail is available in 59 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (59 years for girls and 1 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 Abbigail has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Abbigail reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 57.1% percentile (ranked #412) with 334 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 334 births per million (ranked 57.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Abbigail ranks #894 for girls (5.6% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 9.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Abbigail reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #847) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 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 "Abbigail".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Abbigail. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Abbigail is pronounced as A-bih-GAYL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-bih-gayl, at 29.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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