girls:
24 births since 2005
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1880
#3371 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1880
#6479 (16th percentile)
The name Abbott is the #6,479 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,262 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 16.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,371 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,238 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 2005.
Abbott has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2005 for girls). Birth data for Abbott is available in 82 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (82 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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 Abbott has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Abbott reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #860) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Abbott ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 43.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abbott reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #964) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abbott".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Abbott. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Abbott is pronounced as A-buht, which has 2 syllables.
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