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Abra vs Abrielle

American parents have registered 4,567 Abrielles since 1880, against 1,023 Abras. Abrielle is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Abra Abrielle

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 67 years in which either name was published, Abrielle for 36 years and Abra for 31 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Abra Abrielle
Total US births 1,0234,567
Most in one year 65298
Babies in 2025 882
Estimated living today 9804,500
Median age today 4013
Peak year 19832012
Best rank 1,689th girls887th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th2,239th
First recorded 19551983
Girls / boys 1,023 / 04,567 / 0

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 Abras alive today are over 40; half the Abrielles are over 13. That is 27 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Abra Abrielle
England and Wales 352

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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