How Many People Are Named Avigail?

2,196

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

About 1 in 155,639 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,217 babies named Avigail in Social Security records from 1968 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,344

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,539

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Peak Year

2016

116 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Hebrew
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Hebrew form of ABIGAIL.

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 Avigail in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Avigail alive today is about 14 years old, and 91% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 2,003
91.2%
30 to 59 193
8.8%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Avigail first appears in the records in 1968 and was given most often in 2016, to 116 babies. In 2025, 88 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1968 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Avigail has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,787, in 2016. In 2025 it ranked #2,122.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,122
Best rank#1,787 (2016)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,257 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Avigail were born in New York than in any other state: about 516 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Avigail was given 6.6 times as often in New York, 4.5 times in New Jersey and 1.6 times in California.

New York 516
California 272
Texas 151
New Jersey 147
Florida 112
Washington 10
North Carolina 8
Maryland 6
Georgia 6
Colorado 5

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