How Many People Are Named Abbey?
people named Abbey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 19,987 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,544 babies named Abbey in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
716 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of ABIGAIL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Abbey in English. Counting Abbey and these spellings together, about 94,815 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Abbey (99.9%) were girls. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 95.8% of the babies were girls then and 100% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Abbey alive today is about 29 years old, and 55% are under 30. Half of them were between 21 and 36 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Abbey first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1999, to 716 babies. In 2025, 21 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Abbey has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #392, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #5,723.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,723 |
| Best rank | #392 (1999) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #458 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Abbey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Abbey were born in Ohio than in any other state: about 1,192 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Abbey was given 2.5 times as often in Iowa, 2.1 times in Utah and 2.1 times in Wisconsin.
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