girls:
2.1k births since 1968
#3781 (34th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1968
#5725 (26th percentile)
The name Avigail is the #5,725 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,056 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 26.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,781 (33.8% percentile) for all time with 2,056 births since 1968.
Avigail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Avigail is available in 45 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Avigail reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #847) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 59 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Avigail ranks #881 for girls (7.0% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 68.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avigail".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Avigail. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Avigail is pronounced as A-vih-GAYL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-bih-gayl, at 8.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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