Abel

girls:

148 births since 1975

#5568 (3rd percentile)

boys:

62.8k births since 1880

#422 (91st percentile)

overall:

63k births since 1880

#933 (88th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abel".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
148
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#753
Current Rank
#947
Female statistics
Total Births
62,829
Peak Births
3,242
Peak Year
2015
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
86.5%
Current Percentile
76.3%
Peak Rank
#123
Current Rank
#217
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Abel

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Abel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 74.4% confident that Abel is pronounced as AY-buhl. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-BEHL, at 15.4% confidence.

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AY-buhl (2 syllables)
Verified
74.4% confidence
EY1 B AH0 L
uh-BEHL (2 syllables)
15.4% confidence
AH0 B EH1 L
uh-BUHL (2 syllables)
10.3% confidence
AH0 B AH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Abel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Abel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AY-bee-uhl (3 syllables)
2 names 1.4k births
EY1 B IY0 AH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

uh-BEE-uhl (3 syllables)
2 names 1.4k births
AH0 B IY1 AH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 EY1 B AH0 L) 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.