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Abigale vs Abisai

American parents have registered 5,892 Abigales since 1880, against 1,164 Abisais. But in 2025 it was Abisai that was commoner, 29 babies to 22.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abigale against Abisai, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abigale Abisai

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 58 years in which either name was published, Abigale for 57 years and Abisai for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Abigale Abisai
Total US births 5,8921,164
Most in one year 31055
Babies in 2025 2229
Estimated living today 5,8001,100
Median age today 2015
Peak year 20032004
Best rank 797th girls2,419th boys
Rank in 2025 5,554th3,757th
First recorded 19581987
Girls / boys 5,892 / 090 / 1,074

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 Abigales alive today are over 20; half the Abisais are over 15. That is 5 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: Abigale and Abisai.