Entry № 41 · Hebrew origin

Abbigail Abbigail — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"My fathers joy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "my fathers joy".

Abbigail is a variant spelling of Abigail, meaning my fathers joy.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

My fathers joy — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Abbigail
Transliteration
Abbigail
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Abbigail stands.

Abbigail does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abbigails before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Abbigail.

The number behind Abbigail.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abbigail reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.