Able
Able is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201445 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,096 boys have been named Able in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 45 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 32%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Able | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 30 | |
| 1920s | 37 | |
| 1930s | 19 | |
| 1940s | 20 | |
| 1950s | 49 | |
| 1960s | 42 | |
| 1970s | 73 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 99 | |
| 2000s | 160 | |
| 2010s | 346 | |
| 2020s | 126 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Able was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Able
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reidpeak 2014
- Jeronimopeak 2023
- Marcianopeak 2013
- Tennysonpeak 2014
- Eliotpeak 2012
- Carmelopeak 2013
- Mendelpeak 2024
- Abelpeak 2015
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.