Abe
Abe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 57 births. Its best rank was 215th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 570.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1917280 births
- Best rank
- #215in 1898
- Since 1880
- 9,628people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,628 boys have been named Abe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 280 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Abe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 443 | |
| 1890s | 504 | |
| 1900s | 572 | |
| 1910s | 2,099 | |
| 1920s | 1,502 | |
| 1930s | 694 | |
| 1940s | 576 | |
| 1950s | 561 | |
| 1960s | 423 | |
| 1970s | 352 | |
| 1980s | 274 | |
| 1990s | 229 | |
| 2000s | 452 | |
| 2010s | 655 | |
| 2020s | 292 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Abe was the 324th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Abe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sampeak 1918
- Natpeak 1915
- Othopeak 1915
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Websterpeak 1915
- Wmpeak 1916
- Odiepeak 1918
- Adolphpeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.