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The first name 
Abbey

Abbey is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Abbey is a well-known but special name!

Abbey is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,590 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,589 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Abbey.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Abbey

Abbey has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

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 five letters, the name Abbey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.

Other names with 
A, b, b, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Abbey – A, b, b, e and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Abbye.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Abbey

If your name is Abbey 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...

This is how you spell the name Abbey

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Abbey, you can simply say:

Apple

Butterfly

Butterfly

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Abbey is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Abbey in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Abbey

Abbey

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Abbey

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Abbey is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
B
B
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Abbey

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
Y

Beeping like crazy...

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. Abbey sounds like this: