How popular is “Abigail” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abigail” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Abigail” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Abigail” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Abigail” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Abigail” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Abigail” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abigail” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	12	0.000059558	12		100%
1881	8	0.000041518	8		100%
1882	14	0.000063196	14		100%
1883	11	0.000050704	11		100%
1884	13	0.000053397	13		100%
1885	9	0.000037367	9		100%
1886	15	0.000058751	15		100%
1887	13	0.000052548	13		100%
1888	18	0.000060105	18		100%
1889	20	0.000069217	20		100%
1890	9	0.000029861	9		100%
1891	11	0.000038371	11		100%
1892	11	0.000032897	11		100%
1893	21	0.000064571	21		100%
1894	13	0.000038383	13		100%
1895	15	0.000042733	15		100%
1896	15	0.00004196	15		100%
1897	15	0.000043233	15		100%
1898	11	0.000028837	11		100%
1899	7	0.000020635	7		100%
1900	14	0.000031093	14		100%
1901	13	0.000037593	13		100%
1902	18	0.000046544	18		100%
1903	20	0.000052466	20		100%
1904	8	0.000019827	8		100%
1905	11	0.000025948	11		100%
1906	15	0.00003501	15		100%
1907	12	0.000025785	12		100%
1908	13	0.000026604	13		100%
1909	12	0.000023473	12		100%
1910	16	0.000027086	16		100%
1911	18	0.000027938	18		100%
1912	24	0.00002429	24		100%
1913	14	0.000012312	14		100%
1914	25	0.000017651	25		100%
1915	38	0.000020738	38		100%
1916	37	0.000019127	37		100%
1917	41	0.000020431	41		100%
1918	26	0.000011975	26		100%
1919	31	0.00001469	31		100%
1920	33	0.000014585	33		100%
1921	24	0.000010281	24		100%
1922	29	0.000012668	29		100%
1923	32	0.000013898	32		100%
1924	31	0.000013016	31		100%
1925	37	0.000015857	37		100%
1926	30	0.000013067	30		100%
1927	33	0.000014228	33		100%
1928	40	0.000017692	40		100%
1929	33	0.000015054	33		100%
1930	25	0.000011245	25		100%
1931	27	0.00001283	27		100%
1932	30	0.000014209	30		100%
1933	32	0.000016004	32		100%
1934	30	0.000014445	30		100%
1935	37	0.000017704	37		100%
1936	36	0.000017328	36		100%
1937	45	0.00002112	45		100%
1938	50	0.000022598	50		100%
1939	53	0.000024053	53		100%
1940	48	0.000020845	48		100%
1941	40	0.000016417	40		100%
1942	48	0.000017571	48		100%
1943	63	0.00002232	63		100%
1944	56	0.000020817	56		100%
1945	53	0.000019978	53		100%
1946	76	0.000023785	76		100%
1947	78	0.000021653	78		100%
1948	72	0.000020854	72		100%
1949	113	0.000032427	113		100%
1950	112	0.000031969	112		100%
1951	137	0.00003719	137		100%
1952	151	0.000039758	151		100%
1953	169	0.000043855	169		100%
1954	147	0.000036928	147		100%
1955	180	0.000044831	180		100%
1956	190	0.000046083	190		100%
1957	187	0.000044501	187		100%
1958	192	0.000046445	192		100%
1959	206	0.000049543	206		100%
1960	228	0.000054889	228		100%
1961	233	0.000056249	233		100%
1962	263	0.000065174	263		100%
1963	255	0.000064423	255		100%
1964	244	0.000062764	244		100%
1965	209	0.000057648	209		100%
1966	191	0.000054954	191		100%
1967	244	0.000071873	244		100%
1968	263	0.000077847	263		100%
1969	281	0.000080856	281		100%
1970	362	0.000100374	362		100%
1971	392	0.000114207	392		100%
1972	393	0.00012504	393		100%
1973	479	0.000158773	479		100%
1974	605	0.000199013	605		100%
1975	615	0.000203683	615		100%
1976	833	0.000274528	827	6	99%
1977	795	0.000250276	795		100%
1978	1010	0.000318223	1010		100%
1979	1226	0.0003685	1226		100%
1980	1588	0.000461024	1577	11	99%
1981	1823	0.000526974	1816	7	99%
1982	1894	0.000539915	1886	8	99%
1983	1922	0.000554956	1910	12	99%
1984	1851	0.000530562	1844	7	99%
1985	1860	0.000521138	1848	12	99%
1986	2011	0.000565352	1996	15	99%
1987	2014	0.000558573	2001	13	99%
1988	2386	0.00064573	2376	10	99%
1989	3427	0.000891416	3405	22	99%
1990	3739	0.000945989	3719	20	99%
1991	3812	0.000978624	3799	13	99%
1992	4004	0.001042363	3988	16	99%
1993	5197	0.001378413	5185	12	100%
1994	7255	0.0019515	7243	12	100%
1995	7836	0.002139724	7824	12	100%
1996	8621	0.002363734	8604	17	100%
1997	9635	0.002657382	9629	6	100%
1998	11122	0.003023756	11100	22	100%
1999	11703	0.003168225	11686	17	100%
2000	13110	0.003468342	13094	16	100%
2001	14826	0.003960581	14807	19	100%
2002	15322	0.004098665	15302	20	100%
2003	15955	0.004196124	15932	23	100%
2004	15524	0.004062893	15435	89	99%
2005	15769	0.004101336	15756	13	100%
2006	15649	0.003955574	15633	16	100%
2007	15503	0.003877996	15476	27	100%
2008	15107	0.00384337	15087	20	100%
2009	14417	0.003773911	14401	16	100%
2010	14266	0.003860121	14257	9	100%
2011	13282	0.003631152	13261	21	100%
2012	12741	0.003483654	12728	13	100%
2013	12445	0.003413641	12429	16	100%
2014	12126	0.003271659	12113	13	100%
2015	12430	0.003358632	12420	10	100%
2016	11804	0.00321749	11794	10	100%
2017	10651	0.002978305	10645	6	100%
2018	9890	0.002812938	9877	13	100%
2019	9200	0.002650584	9189	11	100%
2020	7910	0.002367854	7910		100%
2021	6991	0.00206349	6985	6	100%
2022	6306	0.001863952	6300	6	100%
2023	5691	0.001718714	5682	9	100%
2024	5499	0.001652095	5499		100%

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