Abigail

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Abigail boys named Abigail

By the numbers

Total US births

413,935

Estimated living today

407,000

Median age today

19

Peak year

2003

Best rank

6th

Rank in 2025

41st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

413,263 / 672

How old the living Abigails are

born that year still alive today

Of the 413,935 babies given the name since 1880, about 407,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 185,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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 Hebrew

From Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל (“Abigail”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Abigails

• Abigail Adams (1744–1818)First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
• Abigail Breslin (born 1996)American actress
• Abigail Johnson (born 1961)American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire
• Abigail Fillmore (1798–1853)First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853
• Abigail Spanberger (born 1979)American politician and former intelligence officer
• Abigail Spencer (born 1981)American actress
• Abigail Spears (born 1981)American tennis player
• Abigail Cowen (born 1998)American actress

People named Abigail with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Abigail is most common

• CA42,181
• TX38,521
• NY22,561
• OH18,762
• FL18,632
• PA18,238
• IL18,178
• MI13,213
• NC12,490
• GA12,164

Relative to how many babies each state records, Abigail is most concentrated in New Hampshire (1.9×), Nevada (1.7×), Alaska (1.7×), Utah (1.6×).

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

Names of 2003

The most popular girls’ names the year Abigail peaked:

• Emily
• Emma
• Madison
• Hannah
• Olivia
• Abigail

All the names of 2003

Abigail elsewhere

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.

Abigail: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Abigail is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.

Abigail: rank by region

In 2025, Abigail was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Abigail was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Abigail was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Abigail appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Abigail by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Abigail among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Abigail lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,053 women called Abigail were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Abigayle
• Abigale
• Abigael
• Abilene
• Abiel
• Abimael
• Abisai
• Abie
• Abigal
• Abir
• Abi
• Abigaile

Abigail against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Abigail vs Abigayle
• Abigail vs Abigale
• Abigail vs Abigael
• Abigail vs Abilene
• Abigail vs Abiel
• Abigail vs Abimael

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