Abbagail is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Abbagail in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Abbagail in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Abbagail by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Abbagail ranks at #7,476. That means there are 7,475 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Abbagail.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Abbagail. Girls named Abbagail have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 2,690 Abbagail ranked higher than ever in 2001. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Abbagail has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Abbagail only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Abbagail was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Abbagail continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Abbagail that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Abbagail, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Abbagail in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 65 women and girls named Abbagail, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 65 women and girls named Abbagail live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Arkansas, California, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Abbagail. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Abbagail lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Abbagail and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Abbagail relative to its female population is Ohio. And even there, only one in 272,953 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Abbagail.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With eight letters, the name Abbagail is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Abbagail and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Abbagail, you can simply say:
Apple
Butterfly
Butterfly
Apple
Goat
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abbagail
Abbagail
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
B
A
G
A
I
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
B
B
A
G
A
I
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Abbagail sounds like this:
