Fun Facts About the Name Abbigale
- More than 2 thousand babies named Abbigale: U.S. records list 2,187 babies given the name Abbigale from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Abbigale Mean?
Abbigale is an English spelling variant of Abigail, a name from the Hebrew Bible. It comes from the Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל (Avigayil), formed from אָב (av, "father") with a possessive ending, giving אָבִי (avi, "my father"), and גִּיל (gil, "joy"). Read literally, the name means "my father is joy" or "my father rejoices"; it is often rendered more loosely as "father's joy." The doubled b and the final e in Abbigale are English spelling changes and do not point to a different Hebrew source.
Abbigale Name History & Origins
The Hebrew form Avigayil appears in the Hebrew Bible. In 1 Samuel 25, Abigail is the wife of the wealthy Nabal; she intervenes to stop David from taking revenge on her husband, and after Nabal's death she becomes David's wife. A second Abigail, the mother of Amasa, is named in 2 Samuel 17:25. The name was carried by Jewish communities and, after the Protestant Reformation, was taken up by English-speaking Protestants, who favored biblical names.
In the 17th century, abigail also became a common English word for a lady's maid, a usage that grew out of the character Abigail in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady (1616). That occupational sense has since fallen from use and has nothing to do with the name's origin.
Abbigale belongs to a later pattern of English respelling in which familiar names pick up doubled consonants and a final silent e; it sits beside established variants of the same name such as Abigale and Abigayle.
How Popular is the Name Abbigale?
Abbigale has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2007. Its best rank was #1,585 in 2001.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,216 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #13,431 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #9,674 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2020 | #11,095 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #9,110 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #3,848 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 | 0.0046% |
| 2012 | #2,045 | 94 | 0.0053% |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 97 | 0.0055% |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 | 0.0053% |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 | 0.0058% |
| 2008 | #1,927 | 109 | 0.0058% |
| 2007 | #1,704 | 128 | 0.0067% |
| 2006 | #1,722 | 121 | 0.0064% |
| 2005 | #1,624 | 124 | 0.0067% |
| 2004 | #1,895 | 99 | 0.0054% |
| 2003 | #1,641 | 117 | 0.0064% |
| 2002 | #1,642 | 112 | 0.0062% |
| 2001 | #1,585 | 117 | 0.0065% |
| 2000 | #1,759 | 99 | 0.0055% |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 | 0.0050% |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 | 0.0036% |
| 1997 | #2,259 | 60 | 0.0034% |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | 0.0035% |
| 1995 | #3,220 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | 0.0025% |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 1992 | #7,513 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1991 | #9,338 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #6,132 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1989 | #5,838 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1981 | #8,129 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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