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Abraham vs Abrielle

American parents have registered 104,175 Abrahams since 1880, against 4,567 Abrielles. Abraham is still ahead, with 1,664 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abraham against Abrielle, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abraham 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

Abraham has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Abraham had 1,959 and Abrielle had 298.

Side by side

  Abraham Abrielle
Total US births 104,1754,567
Most in one year 2,584298
Babies in 2025 1,66482
Estimated living today 84,0004,500
Median age today 2013
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 157th boys887th girls
Rank in 2025 209th2,239th
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 208 / 103,9674,567 / 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 Abrahams alive today are over 20; half the Abrielles are over 13. That is 7 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 Abraham Abrielle
England and Wales 1,95552

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: Abraham and Abrielle.