Abby Explained

Abby
Gender:	Unisex (mostly female)
Language:	English
Origin:	Historically a nickname for Abigail or Albert
Variant:	Abbie, Abbi, Abbey
Related Names:	Abigail, Albert, Abbott, Abbot, Abraham, Abner, Aby, Abey, Abi, Abie, Gobnait (Irish), Abaigeal (Irish), Ailbhe (Irish)
Meaning:	"My father is joyful" (Hebrew)

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
• Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins (1842–1924), American businesswoman
• 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
• Abbie Sweetwine (1921–2009), American military nurse, founder of modern paramedic medicine
• 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
• Abby Moon Zeciroski (born 1973), American mixed media artist

Men

• Abby Altson (1866–1948), British artist
• Albert Brunies (1900–1978), American jazz cornetist nicknamed "Abbie"
• Abby Berlin (1907–1965), American film and TV director
• Abbie Cox (1902–1985), Canadian ice hockey player
• 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 Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
• Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Ugandan actor
• Abbie Newell (1897–1967), Canadian ice hockey player
• Abbie Rowe (1905–1967), American photographer
• Abbie Shaba (born 1958), Malawian politician
• Abbie Shadbolt (1887–1971), New Zealand rugby league player
• Abby Singer (1917–2014), film production manager and assistant director from the 1950s to the 1980s
• Abbey Simon (1920–2019), American musician
• 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)