Abegail
Abigail is a feminine given name. The name comes from the Biblical Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל ʾĂḇīḡayīl, meaning "my father's joy". It is also a surname.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Abegail
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Abigail is a feminine given name. The name comes from the Biblical Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל ʾĂḇīḡayīl, meaning "my father's joy". It is also a surname.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Abegail
American parents first put Abegail on the record books as a baby girl name in 1981, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2000, when 35 Abegails were born — ranking #3,664 that year. About 47% of every Abegail on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Abegail last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 515 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Abegail
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Abegail. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Abegail
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- Abigail Adams née Smith (1744–1818), First Lady of the United States to president John Adams
- Abigail Abbot Bailey (1746–1815), American memoirist
- Abigail Bauleke (born 2001), American wheelchair basketball player
- Abigail Binay (born 1975), Filipina politician
- Abigail Breslin (born 1996), American actress
- Abigail Byskata (born 2007), Finnish ice hockey player
- Abigail Camilleri , Maltese politician
- Abi Carter (born 2002), American singer and musician
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Names that sound like Abegail
Phonetically similar names — useful when Abegail is the vibe but a different syllable count or letter feel might suit better. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Abigail
- Abigails
- Upscale
- Unbuckle
- Epical
- Epochal
- Abul
- Obal
- Abeille
- Abuttal
- Apical
- Jugale
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About the name Abegail
Abegail is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1981 and has accumulated 515 births in the dataset. Abegail's peak popularity came in 2000 when it ranked #3,664. Use the chart and map above to compare Abegail's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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