Abigal
Feminine
Abigal is Abigail with one letter gone, and the letter is doing enough work that the name looks different on the page even though almost nobody says it differently. The name underneath is Hebrew, and Hebrew names are usually not words but statements.
How old is the name Abigal?
Abigal first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Abigal alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 800 people named Abigal are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abigal most popular?
Abigal peaked in 2000, reaching #3527 nationally. See the whole 2000 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Abigal
A great many Hebrew names are not nouns. They are complete sentences, usually about God, compressed into one word: God has heard, God will add, who is like God, the Lord is my light, God has given. Abigail is built the same way, on a phrase about a father and joy. This is not a poetic flourish; it is how the language makes names, and it means that a Hebrew name can be translated as a statement rather than a label, which very few European names can. English names mostly describe a person or a place. Hebrew names mostly say something. Whoever removed the letter from this spelling was not touching any of that, and the record does not say who they were or why.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Abigail is a short sentence in Hebrew and its sense is well documented. This spelling, with a letter removed, is not documented at all, and it is not certain that the two are the same name in every household that uses them.
Pronouncing Abigal
AB-ih-gal
Three syllables with the stress in front. The missing i means many readers give the last syllable a short a rather than the long one of Abigail, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Abigal
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
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 200538 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3527reached in 2000
- Change vs 2022
- +50.0%9 in 2024, from 6
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.
Abigal in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avigayil in Hebrew — transliteration
Abigals among us
people named Abigal 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
Abigal 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
- The name behind it is ancient, documented and used across the English-speaking world.
- Abby is available as a short form from the first day and needs no explaining.
- It is short enough to write quickly and long enough to sound like a full name.
- Abigail is overwhelmingly the standard spelling, and the missing i will be supplied by nearly everyone.
- The two readings of the final syllable are both current, so the name gets said back to you two ways.
- No origin is documented for this form, so the meaning question has to be answered about the longer name instead.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abigals are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Abigal are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abigal in 2025?
- Abigal is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Abigal with classmates?
- Abigal will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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