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Abagail

Abagail is a girl's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 868th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 5,800 Abagails are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Abagail

By the numbers

Total US births
5,898
Estimated living today
5,800
Median age today
20
Peak year
2008
Best rank
868th
Rank in 2025
7,885th
First recorded
1950

How old the living Abagails are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,898 babies given the name since 1950, about 5,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Abagail is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Abagail is most concentrated in West Virginia (2.6×), Indiana (2.1×), Kentucky (2.0×), Tennessee (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Abagail peaked:

All the names of 2008

Abagail elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Abagail 21 2,746th
Ireland girls Abagail 16 512th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.