Aby
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AB-ee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Aby is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my father is joy”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Aby mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Abbie; short form of Abigail
“my father is joy”
Abigail is a wife of King David in the Bible, praised for her good sense.
Meaning borrowed from Abbie. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aby a girl's or a boy's name?
Aby is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aby in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 4 girls.
Aby in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Aby in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Aby, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Aby in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 533 girls in the US were given Aby or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #561, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Aby in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
Names like Aby
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lily, Ava, Tilly, Ivy, Poppy, Ellie, Molly, Mia, Amelie, Ayla, Abigail, Raya
Other spellings of Aby
Names related to Aby
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie
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, “Aby: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aby, updated 20 October 2026.