# Abbey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/abbey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,544 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 35 / 17,509 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,862, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 290 | 898 |
| 2012 | 253 | 999 |
| 2013 | 222 | 1,101 |
| 2014 | 157 | 1,446 |
| 2015 | 163 | 1,416 |
| 2016 | 139 | 1,590 |
| 2017 | 95 | 2,053 |
| 2018 | 65 | 2,647 |
| 2019 | 81 | 2,249 |
| 2020 | 75 | 2,341 |
| 2021 | 45 | 3,436 |
| 2022 | 36 | 4,041 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,170 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,616 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5,724 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 | 3,264 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,459 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,174 |
| 1951 | 7 | 3,066 |
| 1999 | 6 | 8,707 |
| 2004 | 6 | 9,953 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 105 | 408 |
| 2009 | 69 | 556 |
| 2010 | 65 | 601 |
| 2011 | 70 | 575 |
| 2012 | 63 | 654 |
| 2013 | 45 | 839 |
| 2014 | 50 | 779 |
| 2015 | 31 | 1,114 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,995 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,887 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |

## People named Abbey

- Abbey Lincoln, American singer (1930–2010)
- Abbey Lee, Australian model
- Abbey Weitzeil, American swimmer
- Abbey Clancy, British lingerie and catwalk model, television presenter
- Abbey Hoes, Dutch actress
- Abbey Simon, American musician (1920–2019)
- Abbey Murphy, American ice hockey forward
- Abbey-Leigh Stringer, English footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.