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Aberdeen

Girl · AB-er-deen · Celtic

Aberdeen is a girls' name of Celtic origin, meaning “river mouth”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Aberdeen mean?

Celtic: Scottish city name, from Pictish or Brittonic aber 'river mouth'

“river mouth”

Taken from the granite city on the north-east coast of Scotland.

Say it
AB-er-deen

Is Aberdeen a girl's or a boy's name?

Aberdeen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aberdeen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 4% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Aberdeen, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1919.

Half of all the girls named Aberdeen in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1919Busiest: 26 in 20172025
Aberdeen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202416#6,928
202317#6,675
202212#8,536
20219#10,287
202016#6,919
201915#7,338
201817#6,788
201726#5,043
201612#8,872
201518#6,719
201424#5,454
201322#5,831
201210#10,424
20115#16,756
20105#16,985
20090–
20080–
20075#17,630
20060–
20057#13,003
20040–
20035#15,777
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19975#13,719
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19236#4,375
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19197#3,815

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