How Many People Are Named Abilene?

1,660

people named Abilene are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 205,894 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,674 babies named Abilene in Social Security records from 1964 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#7,604

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,254

See the top 100

Peak Year

2024

102 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Biblical
Pronunciation: AB-i-leen (English), ab-i-LEE-nee (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From a place name mentioned briefly in the New Testament. It possibly means "grass" in Hebrew.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Abilene in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Abilene alive today is about 13 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 18 in 2025.

Under 30 1,529
92.2%
30 to 59 126
7.6%
60 and over 4
0.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Abilene first appears in the records in 1964 and was given most often in 2024, to 102 babies. In 2025, 91 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1964 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Abilene has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,942, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #2,064.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,064
Best rank#1,942 (2024)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,642 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Abilene alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Abilene were born in Texas than in any other state: about 219 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Abilene was given 4 times as often in Texas and 2.5 times in California.

Texas 219
California 169
Florida 23
North Carolina 21
Georgia 18
Colorado 17
Virginia 9
Ohio 7
Tennessee 5
Washington 5

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