Abi is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Abi in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Abi in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Abi by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Abi ranks at #6,073. That means there are 6,072 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 Abi.
In fact, the name Abi did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Abi seemed to be more popular than ever in 2009. Although the name never ranked higher than #4,180, 32 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Abi, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Abi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Abi a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #6,652 - with a total of 14 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Abi, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Abi living in one state or another (if your name is Abi and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 700,345 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Abi. So, if your name is Abi it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Abi already makes you special.
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 only three letters, the name Abi is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Abi 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 Abi, you can simply say:
Apple
Butterfly
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abi
Abi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
I
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
I
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. Abi sounds like this:
