Abbott
Abbott reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 2,255, and has been recorded 1,320 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 940 Abbotts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Abbott boys named Abbott
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,320
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 2,255th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 24 / 1,296
How old the living Abbotts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,320 babies given the name since 1880, about 940 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
An occupational surname for someone employed by an abbot. In the U.S., sometimes an anglicization of Italian Abate, Spanish Abad or German Abt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abbotts
- Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926)British theologian and author
- Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921)American artist
- Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856)English barrister and humorist
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943)American educator and legal scholar
- Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877)American paleontologist, malacologist, and geologist
People named Abbott with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abbott is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abbott is most concentrated in Texas (6.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Abbott peaked:
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Abbott against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.