Abbey
Abbey is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 392nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 17,000 Abbeys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Abbey boys named Abbey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,544
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 392nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 17,509 / 35
How old the living Abbeys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,544 babies given the name since 1914, about 17,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abbeys
- Abbey Lincoln (1930–2010)American singer
- Abbey Lee (born 1987)Australian model
- Abbey Weitzeil (born 1996)American swimmer
- Abbey Clancy (born 1986)British lingerie and catwalk model, television presenter
- Abbey Brooks (born 1983)pornographic performer
- Abbey Hoes (born 1994)Dutch actress
People named Abbey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abbey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abbey is most concentrated in Utah (2.7×), Iowa (1.9×), Minnesota (1.8×), Wisconsin (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular girls’ names the year Abbey peaked:
Abbey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Abbey | 2,862 | 165th |
| Ireland girls | Abbey | 698 | 110th |
| Scotland girls | Abbey | 631 | 115th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Abbey | 97 | 194th |
| New Zealand girls | Abbey | 40 | 99th |
| Poland girls | Abbey | 2 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Abbey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.