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Abi

Abi is a girl's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 4,990th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 650 Abis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Abi boys named Abi

By the numbers

Total US births
654
Estimated living today
650
Median age today
17
Peak year
2016
Best rank
4,990th
Rank in 2025
9,457th
First recorded
1973
Girls / boys
632 / 22

How old the living Abis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 654 babies given the name since 1973, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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.

Notable Abis

People named Abi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Abi is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular girls’ names the year Abi peaked:

All the names of 2016

Abi elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Abi 1,586 204th
Scotland girls Abi 542 78th
Ireland girls Abi 425 109th
Northern Ireland girls Abi 183 78th
France girls Abi 105 2,850th
France boys Abi 15 6,987th

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

Abi 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.