Abigail


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
117 famous people named Abigail found on Wikipedia.
366131 female, 639 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 11-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 4-th in year 2005
Used in: Biblical, English, German

Meanings

A female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy of the father.”.

Abigail is a female given name. The name comes from the Hebrew name אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל Avigail, meaning "my father's joy" (alternatively "my father is exultation", or "my father is joy"). This name has become popular in the U.S. in the 2000s.
Abigail was the wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Samuel), and is described as an intelligent, beautiful, loyal woman. The name Abigail, Abagale or Abbigail can be shortened to "Abby", "Abbey", "Abbi", "Abbie", "Abbe", "Abi", "Abbye", "Abs", or "Aby", as well as "Gail" or "Gayle".

Fem. proper name, from Hebrew Abhigayil, literally "my father is rejoicing," from abh "father" + gil "to rejoice." In the Old Testament Abigail the Carmelitess was a wife of David. Used in general sense of "lady's maid" (1660s) from character of that name in Beaumont & Fletcher's "The Scornful Lady." Her traditional male counterpart was Andrew. The waiting maid association perhaps begins with I Samuel xxv, where David's wife often calls herself a "handmaid."

Father's joy. Father in rejoicing.

Famous People: 117 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Abigail Breslin 1996 American actress
2 Abigail Spencer 1981 American actress
3 Abigail Adams 1744 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
4 Abigail Hopkins 1968 English singer-songwriter, actress and theatre director
5 Abigail Cruttenden 1968 British actress
6 Abigail Johnson 1961 American businesswoman
7 Abigail Jain 1992 Indian actress
8 Abigail Thaw 1965 British actress
9 Abigail Adams Smith 1765 Daughter of John Adams
10 Abigail Deveraux
11 Abigail Disney 1960 American filmmaker
12 Abigail Folger 1943 Heiress, Volunteer
13 Abigail Ratchford
14 Abigail Savage 1984
15 Abigail Brand
16 Abigail Eames 2003
17 Abigail Washburn 1977 American banjo player and singer
18 Abigail Fillmore 1798 Wife of US President Millard Fillmore
19 Abigail Clayton American pornographic actor
20 Abby Johnston 1989 American diver
21 Abigail Spears 1981 American tennis player
22 Abigail Mac 1988
23 Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa 1926 Heiress, preservationist, and descendent of the House of Kawānanakoa
24 Abigail May Alcott Nieriker 1840 American artist and sister of Louisa May Alcott
25 Abigail Hardingham
26 Abigail Mavity 1993 American actress
27 Abigail McKern 1955 British actress
28 Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa 1882 Hawaiian princess
29 Abigail Hobbs
30 Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham 1670 English Lady of the Bedchamber
31 Abigail Scott Duniway 1834 Suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer
32 Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa 1903 Hawaiian princess
33 Abigail Rokison Shakespearean scholar
34 Abigail Valte 1980
35 Abigail Pereira 1986
36 Abigail 2000 English singer
37 Abigail MacBride Allen 1970 Heir to literary rights of Little House books
38 Abigail Good 1973 British actor and model
39 Abigail Lane 1967 English artist
40 Abigail Pogrebin 1965 American writer
41 Abigail Franks
42 Abigail Duhon 2000 Musician
43 Abigail Faulkner 1652
44 Abigail Whelan 1988 American politician
45 Abigail Abraham 1989 Belgian actor
46 Abigail Bush American abolitionist and women's rights advocate
47 Nasya Abigail 1999
48 Abigail Thernstrom 1936 American political scientist, writer, academic
49 Abigail McCarthy 1915 American politician
50 Abigail Child 1948 American writer and filmmaker
51 Abigail Hopper Gibbons 1801 American abolitionist, reformer, activist and Civil War nurse
52 Abigail Hargrove 1999 American child actor, film actor and actor
53 Abigail Williams Fictional character (As the World Turns)
54 Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell 1858 Hawaiian noblewoman
55 Abigail Mason American actress
56 Jan Hamilton 1965 British Army officer
57 Abigail Kelly Singer
58 Abigail Binay 1975
59 Abigail Tarttelin 1987 English novelist
60 Abigail Sin 1992 Pianist
61 Abigail Thompson 1958 American mathematician
62 Abigail Maia 1887 Brazilian actress
63 Abigail Maheha 1832 Member of the royal family during the Kingdom of Hawaii
64 Abigail Mejia 1895
65 Abigail McCary 1982 American model
66 Abigail Becker 1830 Canadian woman noted for saving strander sailors
67 Peter Abigail 1948 Retired senior Australian Army officer
68 Abigail Tere-Apisah 1992 Papua New Guinean tennis player
69 Robert Abigail 1981 Dutch music DJ (b.1980)
70 Abigail Keats 1986 South African fashion designer
71 Abigail Elizalde 1985 Mexican model
72 Abigail Bakan 1954 Canadian political writer
73 Abigail Kubeka South African actress, singer
74 Abigail Solomon-Godeau 1948 American art historian
75 Abigail Droeger 1997
76 Abigail Heyman 1942 American feminist and photojournalist
77 Abigail Hyndman 1990 Miss British Virgin Islands 2011, contestant in Miss Universe 2012
78 Abigail Fallis 1969 Sculptor
79 Abigail Irozuru 1990 Long jumper
80 Abigail DeVille 1981
81 Abigail Padgett 1942 Writer
82 Abigail Pietersen 1984 Figure skater
83 Abigail McLellan 1969 British artist
84 Abigail Royce American model
85 Abigail Budak 1968
86 Abigail Guthrie 1990 New Zealand tennis player
87 Abigail Conceição de Souza 1921 Brazilian footballer and manager
88 Abigail Garner 1975 Author and advocate
89 Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen 1852 Folklorist
90 Abigail Reynolds
91 Abigail Mott
92 Abigail Merwin 1759 American revolutionary
93 Abigail Levine American choreographer
94 Francis Abigail 1840 Politician
95 Abigail Mickey 1990 American bicycle racer
96 Abigail Ozora Simpson 1964 British artist
97 Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey 1788 American editor
98 Reginald Philip Abigail 1892
99 Abigail Edmonds 1990 Olympic canoeist
100 Abigail Jaye 1979 British stage actor
101 Abigail Ruston 1983 American shot putter
102 Abigail Wehrung 1995
103 Abigail Adams Eliot 1892 Educator and authority on early childhood education
104 Abigail Lazkoz 1972 Basque painter
105 Abigail Fischer
106 Abigail Parecis
107 Abigail Borah 1990 American activist
108 Abigail Gloud 1987
109 Abigail Bayley 1977
110 Abigail Doyle
111 Abigail Moura
112 Abigail Baldwin English publisher
113 Abigail Lindo 1803 Hebrew (1803–1848), lexicographer
114 Abigail M. Harris
115 Abigail Gawthern 1757 Gawthern [née Frost], Abigail Anna (1757–1822), diarist and lead manufacturer
116 Abigail Watson 1685 English Quaker minister
117 Abigail de Andrade 1864 Brazilian painter