Abilene is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Abilene is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Abilene. In the SmartGenius ranking, Abilene is #2,313 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Abilene.
In fact, the name Abilene 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), Abilene seemed to be more popular than ever in 2016. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,908, 94 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Abilene, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Abilene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Abilene a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,426 - with a total of 63 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.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Abilene 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 365 women and girls named Abilene, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 365 women and girls named Abilene live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Abilene. (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 Abilene lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Abilene 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 Abilene relative to its female population is Texas. And even there, only one in 61,232 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Abilene.
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 seven letters, the name Abilene has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Abilene 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 Abilene, you can simply say:
Apple
Butterfly
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abilene
Abilene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
I
L
E
N
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
I
L
E
N
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. Abilene sounds like this:
