girls:
28 births since 2007
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1971
#3230 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1971
#6315 (18th percentile)
The name Abiel is the #6,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,429 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 18.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,230 (29.5% percentile) for all time with 1,401 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2007.
Abiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Abiel is available in 51 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 5 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 Abiel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Abiel reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #839) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Abiel ranks #871 for boys (4.4% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abiel reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #982) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abiel".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Abiel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Abiel is pronounced as AY-bee-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-BEE-uhl, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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