as a First Name
Shortened form of Abigail. It was not found as an independent given name before the middle of the 20th century; it became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, but has since fallen out of fashion.
| 220th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 279,769
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Gail per capita
- 1951
- marked the height of its popularity
98%
2%
70%
55+
55+
30%
30-54
30-54
0.59%
13-29
13-29
0.06%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
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