Abi

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Abi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Abi: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #78 in 2008, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#533
1997	#750
1998	#758
1999	#864
2000	#701
2001	#796
2002	#643
2003	#433
2004	#214
2005	#204
2006	#276
2007	#313
2008	#319
2009	#467
2010	#709
2011	#681
2012	#1184
2013	#1075
2014	#1120
2015	#1961
2016	#2233
2017	#3229
2018	#3985
2019	#1940
2020	#3117
2021	#2942
2022	#2888

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2022.

In 2022: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2888 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #533 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2024
Highest recorded position: #78 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2003–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Abi appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,586 births with the name.

Abi across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Abi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#533 (1996)	#204 (2005)	#2888 (2022)	27 of 27	1,586 (1996–2022)	229 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#498 (2001)	#104 (2005)	#718 (2025)	23 of 25	425 (2001–2025)	61 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#331 (2003)	#78 (2008)	#407 (2024)	16 of 22	183 (2003–2024)	30 (2008)

Abi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Abi in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	133	4 of 10	33
2000sbusiest	1,177	10 of 10	118
2010s	253	10 of 10	25
2020s	23	3 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 118 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 133, from 81 to 214.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Abi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Abi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1184	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#681	57	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#709	52	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#467	89	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#319	144	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#313	145	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#276	169	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#204	229	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#214	214	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#433	81	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#643	42	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#796	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#701	34	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#864	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#758	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#533	47	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#223	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#199	10	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#180	11	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#172	12	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#119	19	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#78	30	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#190	10	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#93	22	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#92	22	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#117	16	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	12	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	12	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	12	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#435	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	14	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#230	24	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#197	30	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#109	61	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#141	43	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#104	54	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#104	54	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#132	36	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 2008.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 229 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kiri · #77, 30y
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Musa · #73, 30y
Bethan · #72, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Campbell · #78, 31y
Demi · #78, 34y
Joey · #78, 32y
Lyra · #78, 26y

Abi was ranked #78 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Abi without appearing here.

Abi moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Shauna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #4001.
Tyler Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Abi

Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1313.
Wendy Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1449.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1286.
Bernadette Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1687.

Moved the opposite way to Abi

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 while Ada went from #2683 to #36.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 while Alma went from #2096 to #279.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 while Alyssa went from #783 to #224.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 while Amalie went from #2096 to #940.

Moved the same way as Abi

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 and Abigail from #21 to #128.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 and Aimee from #70 to #1326.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 and Aisling from #440 to #1621.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Abi went from #533 to #2888 and Alex from #161 to #2178.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Abi

Abi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Abi across 3 official records

Abi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Abi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Abi moved ahead of

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Abi at a glance

Abi across 3 official records

Abi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Abi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Abi

Abi and the names beside it

Abi moved ahead of

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