Abilene
Girl · AB-i-leen · Hebrew
Abilene is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “meadow, grassy plain”. In 2025 it ranked 2,064th for girls in the US (91 babies).
What does Abilene mean?
Hebrew: biblical place name, via US towns in Kansas and Texas
“meadow, grassy plain”
Abilene, Kansas, named after a region mentioned in Luke's Gospel, was the boyhood home of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Say it
- AB-i-leen
Is Abilene a girl's or a boy's name?
Abilene is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 91 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Abilene in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,064among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 91about 1 in 18,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 91 girls in the US were named Abilene, making it the 2,064th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,890th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 102 girls. It first appears in the records in 1964.
Half of all the girls named Abilene in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Abilene in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,064 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,942 |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,195 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,689 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,608 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,890 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,400 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,557 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,160 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,084 |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,590 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,324 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,902 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,597 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,158 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,799 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,088 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,991 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,985 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,531 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,082 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,683 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,644 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,367 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,840 |
| 1993 | 19 | #4,992 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,653 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,949 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,316 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,766 |
Nicknames for Abilene
- Abby 18 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Abilene
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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