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Girl · English pet form of a Hebrew name
Abbie
Say it: AB-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Abigail, from Hebrew Avigayil, usually 'my father is joy'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used as a full name in the 1800s and popular again from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 22,023 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1890, about 1 in 1,400 girls
- 87 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Abby, Abbey
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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