Abbe is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Abbe has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Abbe. That means that a girl named Abbe is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Abbe.
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 Abbe. Girls named Abbe have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,120 Abbe ranked higher than ever in 1957. By comparison, there have been 82 years in which the first name Abbe 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Abbe 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 Abbe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Abbe 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 370 women and girls named Abbe, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 370 women and girls named Abbe live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Abbe. (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 Abbe lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Abbe 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 Abbe relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 44,862 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Abbe.
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 four letters, the name Abbe is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Abbe 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 Abbe, you can simply say:
Apple
Butterfly
Butterfly
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abbe
Abbe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
B
E
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
E
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. Abbe sounds like this:
