Abner
Abner is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 838th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 874th. About 6,600 Abners are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Abner
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,454
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 838th
- Rank in 2025
- 874th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Abners are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,454 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,600 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 3,500 of them are children and 410 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 אבנר (“father of light”). From אָב (“father”) + נור (“light”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abners
- Abner Vinícius (born 2000)Brazilian footballer
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893)Union Army general
- Abner Felipe Souza de Almeida (born 1996)Brazilian footballer
- Abner Biberman (1909–1977)American actor, director, and screenwriter
- Abner Mares (born 1985)Mexican professional boxer
- Abner Teixeira (born 1996)Brazilian boxer
People named Abner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abner is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abner is most concentrated in Texas (2.5×), California (2.1×), Pennsylvania (2.1×), Florida (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Abner peaked:
Abner elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Abner | 84 | 1,705th |
| France boys | Abner | 10 | 4,683rd |
| Ireland boys | Abner | 6 | 785th |
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.
Abner 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Abner | — | 33 |
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.
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.