Abigail (name)
Abigail is a feminine given name. The name comes from the ʾĂḇīḡayīl, meaning "my father's joy". It is also a surname.
The name can be shortened to Abbey, Abby or Abbie, Abbi, Abi, or Aby, as well as Gail and Gayle, among others.
Biblical figures
- Abigail is the wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Samuel, and is described as an intelligent, beautiful, loyal woman.
- Abigail is the mother of Amasa, the commander-in-chief of Absalom's army.
Translations
- Arabic: ابيجايل "Abigail", ابيغيل "Abighail"
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܒ݂ܝܼܓ݂ܸܠ ""
- Bengali: এবিগেল
- Biblical Greek: Abigaia
- Biblical Hebrew: אביגיל
- Bulgarian: Абигейл
- Catalan: Abigail
- Cantonese: 阿比基爾
- Chinese Simplified: 阿比盖尔
- Chinese Traditional: 艾比蓋兒
- Czech: Abigel
- Danish: Abigail, Abigael
- Dutch: Abigail,
- Ethiopian: Abigiya, አቢግያ
- Fijian: Apikali
- French: Abigaïl, Abigaël
- German: Abigail
- Greek: Άμπιγκεϊλ
- Gujarati: એબીગેઇલ
- Haitian Creole: Abigayèl
- Hawaiian: Apikalia, ʻApikaʻila
- Hebrew: אביגיל, Avigail / Abigail, אֲבִיגָיִל
- Hindi: अबीगैल
- Hungarian: Abigél
- Indonesian: Abigail
- Irish: Abigeál
- Italian: Abigaille
- Japanese: アビゲイル
- Korean: 애비게일
- Macedonian: Авигеја
- Maori: Apikaira
- Mongolian: Ивээл
- Nepali: अबीगेलले
- Persian: آبیگل - ابیگیل - ابیگل
- Polish: Abigeil
- Portuguese: Abigail
- Punjabi: ਅਬੀਗੈਲ
- Romanian: Abigaela
- Russian: Эбиге́йл or Авиге́я ; the latter used exclusively in biblical contexts
- Serbian: Абигејл but in biblical context Ависага is used
- Somali: Abiigayil
- Spanish: Abigaíl
- Swahili: Abigaeli
- Swedish: Abigail
- Turkish: Abigail, Avigayil
- Ukrainian: Абіґейл
- Urdu: ابیگیل
- Yiddish: אַביגאַיל
- Yoruba: Ábígẹlì
People with the given name
- Abigail Adams née Smith, First Lady of the United States to president John Adams
- Abigail Abbot Bailey, American memoirist
- Abigail Bauleke, American wheelchair basketball player
- Abigail Binay, Filipina politician
- Abigail Breslin, American actress
- Abigail Byskata, Finnish ice hockey player
- Abigail Camilleri, Maltese politician
- Abi Carter, American singer and musician
- Abbey Clancy, English model
- Abigail Conceição de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
- Abigail Cowen, American actress
- Abigail Cruttenden, English television actress
- Abby Dahlkemper, American soccer player
- Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Millard Fillmore
- Abigail Folger, American heiress and murder victim
- Abigail Glen, English cricketer
- Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
- Abigail Franks, Colonial-era New York City Jewish letter writer
- Abigael González Valencia, Mexican suspected drug lord
- Abigail Griffin, American politician
- Abbey Hsu, American basketball player
- Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa, Hawaiian princess
- Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa, Hawaiian princess
- Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, Hawaiian princess
- Abby Lee Miller, American dance instructor
- Abigail Maheha, Hawaiian princess
- Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, British baroness
- Abi Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter
- Abigail Morris, British arts administrator
- Abigail Morris , British singer-songwriter
- Abigail Paduch, Australian judoka
- Abigail Rogan, aka Abigail, Australian actress
- Abigail Rogers, American advocate for women's rights and women's education
- Abigail Rooney, American politician
- Abigail Seldin, American edtech entrepreneur
- Abigail Adams Smith, first-born child of John Adams, the former President of the United States
- Abigail Willis Tenney Smith, missionary to the Sandwich Islands; teacher
- Abigail Spanberger, American politician
- Abigail Spears, American tennis player
- Abigail Spencer, American actress
- Abigail Swann, American atmospheric scientist and ecologist
- Abigael Tarus, Kenyan volleyball player
- Abigail Tere-Apisah, Papua New Guinean tennis player
- Abigail Thorn, British actress and YouTuber
- Abi Titmuss, British actress
- Abigail Van Buren, pen name of Pauline Philips, pseudonymous author of the Dear Abby column
- Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey, American educator, publisher, editor
- Abigail Williams , a primary accuser in the Salem witch trials; portrayed in the Arthur Miller play ''The Crucible''
Fictional characters with the given name
- Abigail, a character in the South Korean action-comedy webtoon series Denma
- Abigail, a character in the Acts of Faith trilogy by T. Davis Bunn and Janette Oke, wife of Stephen
- Abigail, a boss villain character in the Final Fight series, and most recently a playable character in Street Fighter V.
- Abigail, the titular vampire character with the appearance of a 12-year-old girl in the 2024 horror comedy film Abigail
- Abby, a 12-year-old vampire character in the 2010 film Let Me In
- Abigaille, a character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco
- Abigail, one of the characters available for marriage in farming simulation role-playing video game Stardew Valley
- Dark Priest Abigail, in the Bastard!! Japanese manga/anime series
- Mother Abagail, the personification of good in Stephen King's novel The Stand
- Princess Abigail, the haughty daughter of King Midas on the ABC television series, Once Upon a Time
- Abigail the Breeze Fairy, a character from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Abigail Anderson, playable character in Naughty Dog's videogame The Last of Us Part II
- Abigail "Abby" Archer, the main protagonist in the Canadian animated television series Grossology
- Abbey Bartlet, the First Lady of the United States in the television drama The West Wing
- Abigail Bellweather, a character from the TV series Motherland: Fort Salem
- Abigail Bird, a supporting character in the 1976–2000 American comic strip Motley's Crew
- Abigail Brand, Special Agent, commanding officer of S.W.O.R.D., that deals with defending the Earth from extraterrestrial threats
- Abi Branning, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Abigail Brown, a character in Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Abigail Callaghan, a minor character from the 2014 Disney 3D computer-animated film Big Hero 6
- Abigail Chase in National Treasure film franchise
- Abigail Deveraux, student in the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Abigail Dixon, a student in the Australian mockumentary Summer Heights High
- Abby Hammond, daughter character in the television series Santa Clarita Diet
- Abby Hatcher, the protagonist of the children's animated television series of the same name
- Abby Holland, DC Comics character
- Abigail Lincoln, one of the protagonists of the Cartoon Network animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door
- Abby Lockhart, medical doctor in the television drama ER
- Abby Maitland, zoologist in the British television series Primeval
- Abigail Mathers, a stranger and freaks character in Grand Theft Auto V
- Abigail Mills, character in Sleepy Hollow
- Abigail Murfitt, a character in the Paradise Barn novels, written by Victor Watson
- Abigail Pershing, formerly known as Abagail Merriwick, is a main character in the Hallmark Channel original series The Good Witch
- Abigail Roberts, the name of John Marston's wife in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2
- Abigail Rook, protagonist of the Jackaby novel series
- Abigail Scanlan, one of the leads in the ABC Family movie Revenge of the Bridesmaids, played by Raven-Symoné
- Abby Sciuto, forensic scientist in the television drama NCIS
- Abigail Stevenson, in The Baby-sitters Club children's book series by Ann Martin
- Abigail Stone, a supporting Jewish character from the 2021 animated film Spirit Untamed
- Abigail Jane Stewart in Kristiana Gregory's The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
- Abigail Stock, a supporting character in the British television series Skins
- Abigail Trant, a character from the 1991 film The Man in the Moon
- Abigail Williams, character in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns
- Abigail Zenobia, a daughter of Valentine Michael Smith and Anne in the 1961 science fiction novel ''Stranger in a Strange Land''
People with the surname
- Francis Abigail, Australian politician
- Peter Abigail, Australian army officer
- Robert Abigail, Dutch DJ