Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: FrenchIn Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Abigail yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Abigail posted the steepest ten-year decline in this batch: down 55% to 5,499 births in 2024, landing at #32. Its rank peaked at #4 in 2005, two years after the raw count's own high of 15,932 births in 2003.
The enrichment data lists no famous bearers at all, despite the name's biblical origin and its earlier run near the top of the chart — a gap shared with Penelope and Zoe elsewhere in this batch.
That combination — a rapid, recent fall from a genuine top-five position, and no documented namesake pulling in the other direction — makes Abigail's decline look less like a slow fade and more like a sharp reversal with nothing currently working to offset it.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 12 | #492 |
| 1881 | 8 | #623 |
| 1882 | 14 | #493 |
| 1883 | 11 | #579 |
| 1884 | 13 | #583 |
| 1885 | 9 | #745 |
| 1886 | 15 | #572 |
| 1887 | 13 | #633 |
| 1888 | 18 | #593 |
| 1889 | 20 | #567 |
| 1890 | 9 | #940 |
| 1891 | 11 | #839 |
| 1892 | 11 | #908 |
| 1893 | 21 | #630 |
| 1894 | 13 | #850 |
| 1895 | 15 | #815 |
| 1896 | 15 | #843 |
| 1897 | 15 | #826 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,047 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,278 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,008 |
| 1901 | 13 | #918 |
| 1902 | 18 | #818 |
| 1903 | 20 | #760 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,364 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,162 |
| 1906 | 15 | #965 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,142 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,135 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,219 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,110 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,031 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,055 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,601 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,228 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,094 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,167 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,110 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,566 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,393 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,375 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,765 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,536 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,428 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,503 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,296 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,483 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,404 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,210 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,306 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,569 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,421 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,346 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,262 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,316 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,162 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,186 |
| 1937 | 45 | #1,063 |
| 1938 | 50 | #1,007 |
| 1939 | 53 | #974 |
| 1940 | 48 | #1,035 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,184 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,137 |
| 1943 | 63 | #996 |
| 1944 | 56 | #1,046 |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,080 |
| 1946 | 76 | #953 |
| 1947 | 78 | #1,003 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,041 |
| 1949 | 113 | #823 |
| 1950 | 112 | #824 |
| 1951 | 137 | #749 |
| 1952 | 151 | #723 |
| 1953 | 169 | #705 |
| 1954 | 147 | #773 |
| 1955 | 180 | #700 |
| 1956 | 190 | #694 |
| 1957 | 187 | #731 |
| 1958 | 192 | #712 |
| 1959 | 206 | #699 |
| 1960 | 228 | #673 |
| 1961 | 233 | #679 |
| 1962 | 263 | #617 |
| 1963 | 255 | #633 |
| 1964 | 244 | #655 |
| 1965 | 209 | #679 |
| 1966 | 191 | #710 |
| 1967 | 244 | #609 |
| 1968 | 263 | #592 |
| 1969 | 281 | #590 |
| 1970 | 362 | #526 |
| 1971 | 392 | #491 |
| 1972 | 393 | #468 |
| 1973 | 479 | #413 |
| 1974 | 605 | #357 |
| 1975 | 615 | #353 |
| 1976 | 827 | #278 |
| 1977 | 795 | #297 |
| 1978 | 1,010 | #242 |
| 1979 | 1,226 | #213 |
| 1980 | 1,577 | #176 |
| 1981 | 1,816 | #156 |
| 1982 | 1,886 | #157 |
| 1983 | 1,910 | #151 |
| 1984 | 1,844 | #154 |
| 1985 | 1,848 | #153 |
| 1986 | 1,996 | #143 |
| 1987 | 2,001 | #138 |
| 1988 | 2,376 | #118 |
| 1989 | 3,405 | #94 |
| 1990 | 3,719 | #90 |
| 1991 | 3,799 | #92 |
| 1992 | 3,988 | #86 |
| 1993 | 5,185 | #67 |
| 1994 | 7,243 | #42 |
| 1995 | 7,824 | #36 |
| 1996 | 8,604 | #32 |
| 1997 | 9,629 | #26 |
| 1998 | 11,100 | #18 |
| 1999 | 11,686 | #18 |
| 2000 | 13,094 | #14 |
| 2001 | 14,807 | #8 |
| 2002 | 15,302 | #7 |
| 2003 | 15,932 | #6 |
| 2004 | 15,435 | #6 |
| 2005 | 15,756 | #4 |
| 2006 | 15,633 | #6 |
| 2007 | 15,476 | #8 |
| 2008 | 15,087 | #8 |
| 2009 | 14,401 | #8 |
| 2010 | 14,257 | #7 |
| 2011 | 13,261 | #7 |
| 2012 | 12,728 | #7 |
| 2013 | 12,429 | #8 |
| 2014 | 12,113 | #8 |
| 2015 | 12,420 | #7 |
| 2016 | 11,794 | #8 |
| 2017 | 10,645 | #10 |
| 2018 | 9,877 | #11 |
| 2019 | 9,189 | #11 |
| 2020 | 7,910 | #12 |
| 2021 | 6,985 | #17 |
| 2022 | 6,300 | #24 |
| 2023 | 5,682 | #31 |
| 2024 | 5,499 | #32 |
