girls:
61k births since 1880
#514 (91st percentile)
boys:
181 births since 1924
#4405 (4th percentile)
overall:
61.2k births since 1880
#949 (88th percentile)
The name Abby is the #949 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 61,171 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #514 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 60,990 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,405 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1924.
Abby has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1924 for boys). Birth data for Abby is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (138 years for girls and 28 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 Abby has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Abby reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 82.6% percentile (ranked #164) with 1,003 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 1,021 births per million (ranked 82.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Abby ranks #524 for girls (44.7% percentile) with 272 births per million, which is 26.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Abby reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #832) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abby".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Abby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Abby is pronounced as A-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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