Abigail

girls:

402.7k births since 1880

#90 (98th percentile)

boys:

672 births since 1976

#3915 (15th percentile)

overall:

403.3k births since 1880

#178 (98th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
402,659
Peak Births
15,932
Peak Year
2005
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.7%
Current Percentile
96.9%
Peak Rank
#4
Current Rank
#30
Female statistics
Total Births
672
Peak Births
89
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1976
Peak Percentile
9.9%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#655
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Abigail

Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Abigail. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 24.7% confident that Abigail is pronounced as A-bih-GAYL. The next most likely pronunciation is A-bih-gayl, at 24.7% confidence.

A-bee-gail (3 syllables)
3.4% confidence
AE1 B IY0 G AY0 L
A-bee-GAL (3 syllables)
2.2% confidence
AE1 B IY0 G AE1 L
A-bee-GAIL (3 syllables)
2.2% confidence
AE1 B IY0 G AY1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

a-bih-GAYL (3 syllables)
6 names 1.2k births
AE0 B IH0 G EY1 L

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 AE1 B IH0 G EY1 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.