| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Historically a nickname for Abigail or Albert |
| Meaning | "My father is joyful" (Hebrew) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Abigail, Albert, Abby, Abbie, Abi, Gobnait (Irish), Abaigeal (Irish), Ailbhe (Irish) |
People
Women
- Abbie Betinis (born 1980), American composer
- Abby Binay (born 1975), Filipino politician
- Abbie Boudreau (born 1979), American television news correspondent
- Abbie Farwell Brown (1871–1927), American author
- Abbie Brown (rugby union) (born 1996), British rugby sevens player
- Abbie Burgess (1839–1892), American lighthouse keeper
- Abby Choi (1995–2023), Hongkonger celebrity and murder victim
- Abbie Cornett (born 1966), American politician
- Abbie Cornish (born 1982), Australian actress and rapper
- Abby Dalton (1932–2020), American actress
- Abbie Eaton (born 1992), British racing driver
- Abby Ellin, American author and journalist
- Abby Elliott (born 1987), American actress and comedian
- Abby Erceg (born 1989), New Zealand footballer
- Abby Ershow, American nutritionist
- Abbie Huston Evans (1881–1983), American poet and teacher
- Abby Franquemont (born 1972), American textile crafts writer and lecturer
- Abbie Park Ferguson (1837–1919), American founder and president of Huguenot College in South Africa
- Abbie M. Gannett (1845–1895), American essayist, poet and philanthropist
- Abby and Brittany Hensel (born 1990), American conjoined twins
- Abby Hoffman (born 1947), Canadian former middle-distance runner
- Abigail Johnson (born 1961), American businesswoman
- Abby Johnson (activist) (born 1980), American anti-abortion activist
- Abby Kelley (1811–1887), American abolitionist and radical social reformer
- Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), American social reformer
- Abby Martin (born 1984), American journalist
- Abbie K. Mason (1861–1908), Black American suffragist.
- Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903–1976), American philanthropist, first child of Abby Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Abbie Mitchell (1884–1960), African-American operatic soprano
- Abbie Myers (born 1994), Australian tennis player
- Abby Meyers (born 1999), American basketball player
- Abby Ringquist (born 1989), American ski jumper
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874–1948), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Abby Rockefeller (ecologist) (born 1943), American ecologist and feminist
- Abby Stein (born 1991), American transgender activist and writer
- Abby Steiner (born 1999), American sprinter
- Abby Sunderland (born 1993), American sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world
- Abby Taylor (born 1985), Tobago politician
- Abby Travis (born 1969), American musician
- Abby Trott, American voice actress
- Abby Wambach (born 1980), American retired soccer player and co
Men
- Albert Brunies (1900–1978), American jazz cornetist nicknamed "Abbie"
- Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989), American social and political activist
- Abbie Johnson (1871–1960), Canadian-born Major League Baseball player
- Abby Mann (1927–2008), American film writer and producer
- Abbie Shaba (born 1958), Malawian politician
- Abbie Shadbolt (fl. 1909-1921), New Zealand rugby league player
- Abby Singer (1917–2014), film production manager and assistant director from the 1950s to the 1980s
- Abbie Wolanow, Israeli-born American soccer player in the early 1960s
Fictional characters
- Abby (Doctor Who), in audio dramas based on the TV series Doctor Who
- Abigail "Abby" Anderson, character in the 2020 video game, The Last of Us Part II
- Abby Archer, main protagonist of the 2006 YTV animated program Grossology
- Abigail Van Buren, pen name used for the Dear Abby syndicated personal advice column
- Abigail "Abby" Cadabby, on the television show Sesame Street
- Abbie Carmichael, on the television show Law & Order, played by Angie Harmon
- Abby Davies, on the soap opera Hollyoaks
- Abby Deveraux, on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
- Abby Hatcher, main protagonist of the eponymous 2018 animated children's program produced by Guru Studio
- Abby Holland, a fictional comic book character who exists in the DC Universe
- Abby Lockhart, a medical doctor on the television series ER
- Abby Maitland, on the ITV science-fiction drama Primeval
- Abby Newman, on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Abby Park, one of Meilin Lee's best friends from the 2022 Pixar film Turning Red
- Abby Sciuto, a forensic scientist on the television series NCIS
- Abigail "Abbie" Scrapple, in the American comic strip Abbie an' Slats (1937–1971)
- Abby the Cow, on the Nickelodeon animated series Back at the Barnyard
- The title character of Abby, a 2003 television series starring Sydney Tamiia Poitier
- The title character of Abby (film), a 1974 blaxploitation/horror film about a woman possessed by an African demon
- Abbie, a 12-year-old vampire in the film, Let Me In
- Abby, in the Disney movie Chicken Little
- Abby, one of many mutant creatures on the American TV series Wayward Pines
- Abby Schmidt, the sister of Mike Schmidt in Five Nights at Freddy's (film)
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Abby
- All pages with titles containing Abby
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