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Abegail vs Abelino

American parents have registered 873 Abelinos since 1880, against 515 Abegails. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abegail against Abelino, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abegail Abelino

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Abelino for 77 years and Abegail for 28 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Abegail Abelino
Total US births 515873
Most in one year 3518
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 510570
Median age today 2136
Peak year 20001928
Best rank 3,664th girls1,822nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19811915
Girls / boys 515 / 00 / 873

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Abelinos alive today are over 36; half the Abegails are over 21. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abegail and Abelino.