Abigaile
Feminine · “A spelling of Abigail”
Abigaile is Abigail with a final e, a spelling of one of the oldest biblical names in American use. Two American Abigails sit at opposite ends of its history: a pioneer who won the vote for Oregon's women, and a girl whose accusations began the Salem trials.
How old is the name Abigaile?
Abigaile first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Abigaile alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 600 people named Abigaile are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abigaile most popular?
Abigaile peaked in 2001, reaching #3486 nationally. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Avigayil to Abigaile
The story of Abigaile
Abigail Williams was about eleven when she and her cousin began the accusations that became the Salem witch trials in 1692; when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 he made her seventeen and invented an affair with John Proctor to drive the drama. Abigail Scott Duniway came west on the Oregon Trail as a girl in 1852, lost her mother on the way, and spent forty years campaigning for women's suffrage in the Pacific Northwest; when Oregon's men voted it in in 1912, the governor asked her to write and sign the proclamation. Abigaile, with its final e, is one of the spellings American families have used.
Meaning
A spelling of Abigail, 'my father is joy'
From Hebrew Avigayil.
How the name formed
- Avigayil
- Abigail
- Abigaile
Related forms: Avigayil · Abigail · Abigaíl
Pronouncing Abigaile
AB-ih-gayl
Three syllables with the stress on the first, like Abigail.
Nicknames for Abigaile
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200642 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3486reached in 2001
- Change vs 2021
- −25.0%6 in 2022, from 8
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.
Abigaile in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avigayil in Hebrew — related form
- Abigail in English — spelling variant
- Abigaíl in Spanish — same name
Abigailes among us
people named Abigaile are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Abigaile sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Abigail, a name everyone knows.
- A settled Hebrew meaning.
- Comes with Abby as a ready short form.
- Almost everyone will write Abigail.
- The final e will be read as a slip by some.
- It sounds like a popular name of its generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abigailes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Abigaile are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abigaile in 2025?
- Abigaile is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Abigaile will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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