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Abigale

Gender
Girl
Say it
AB-i-gayl
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Abigale is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my father is joy”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Abigale mean?

Hebrew: spelling variant of Abigail

“my father is joy”

Abigail is the wise wife of Nabal, later of King David, in the First Book of Samuel.

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

Abigale is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Abigale in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 25 girls.

Half of all the girls named Abigale in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 25 in 19972019
Abigale in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20191#7,346
20185#4,204
20170–
20160–
20150–
20147#3,321
20138#3,060
201213#2,210
201111#2,393
201017#1,757
200915#1,848
200820#1,499
200718#1,544
200620#1,364
200521#1,250
200419#1,293
200314#1,564
200212#1,649
200113#1,542
200016#1,290
199914#1,415
199823#1,015
199725#940
199618#1,122

How popular is Abigale in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,553rd among girls
Babies in 2025
22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fast down 62% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Abigale, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,317th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 310 girls. It first appears in the records in 1958.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Abigale than any year since 1985.

Half of all the girls named Abigale in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,061 girls in the US were given Abigale or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #51, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.

1958Busiest: 310 in 20032025
Abigale in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202427#4,890
202332#4,361
202237#3,961
202137#3,933
202076#2,317
201956#2,923
201882#2,238
201788#2,160
2016106#1,897
2015116#1,793
2014126#1,674
2013167#1,385
2012201#1,211
2011204#1,182
2010287#909
2009274#969
2008249#1,049
2007285#951
2006299#890
2005294#860
2004278#882
2003310#797
2002276#839
2001246#917
2000223#952
1999225#933
1998187#1,049
1997169#1,109
1996133#1,294
1995141#1,211
199498#1,561
199364#2,107
199249#2,543
199154#2,350
199044#2,635
198941#2,708
198842#2,534
198725#3,521
198623#3,643
198521#3,851
198419#3,989
198313#5,147
198228#3,092
198111#5,884
198015#4,742
197917#4,230
197818#3,924
19770–
19766#8,154
19757#7,171
19748#6,257
19730–
19725#8,290
19716#7,386
19705#7,994
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19635#6,591
19620–
19615#6,566
19600–
19595#6,244
19585#6,102

Nicknames for Abigale

Names like Abigale

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Abigale

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Abigale: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/abigale, updated 20 October 2026.