Abbey

5,055 people in the United States were counted with the surname Abbey in the 2020 census, making it the 6,462nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 59,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,055
Rank: 6,462nd
How common: 1 in 59,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Abbey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Abbey

Edward Abbey (1927–1989)American author and essayist
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911)American illustrator and painter
Lynn Abbey (born 1948)American writer
Henry Abbey (1842–1911)American poet

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

Surnames like Abbey

Also a first name

Abbey has been given to 17,544 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1999. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.