Abbott
Masculine · “father”
Abbott is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,296 boys against 24 girls since 1880.
Abbott is the head of a monastery, and the word is Aramaic — abba, father, taken into Greek and Latin without translation and never rendered into English.
How old is the name Abbott?
Abbott was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Abbott alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 900 people named Abbott are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abbott most popular?
Abbott peaked in 1880, reaching #909 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, 3,040 places below that high. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From abba to Abbott
The story of Abbott
Abba is what a child calls a father in Aramaic, and the early desert monks used it for their spiritual fathers; the word traveled with monasticism into every language of Christendom. The English surname was occupational or given to someone in an abbot's service, or ironically to a solemn man. It appears in American records as a given name in real numbers around 1880.
Meaning
father, head of a monastery
From Aramaic abba, father, through Greek abbas and Latin abbas; the word passed into every European language for the head of a monastic house, and the same Aramaic word appears untranslated in the New Testament.
How the name formed
- abba
- abbas
- abbot
- Abbott
Related forms: Abbot · Abad · Abba
Pronouncing Abbott
AB-ut
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Abbott
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 201759 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #909reached in 1880
- Change vs 2023
- −28.9%27 in 2025, from 38
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Abbott in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Abbot in English — spelling variant
- Abad in Spanish — related form
- Abba in Aramaic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Indiana, Louisiana.
Abbotts among us
people named Abbott are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Abbott
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Abbott sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Abbott is headed
Abbott should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Abbott beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abbott in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely remarkable linguistic journey behind it.
- Abe is a plain short form with its own American history.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It names a religious office, which some will find an odd thing to be called.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- Abbot with one t is the word and Abbott with two is the surname.
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Masculine · #3949 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Abbotts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Abbott are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abbott in 2025?
- Abbott ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abbott?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Abbott — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abbott with classmates?
- Abbott will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Abbott
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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