Abby or Abbie is a given name, most often a shortened form of
Abigail
Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Ahinoam and Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to ...
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Albert.
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Abbie Betinis (born 1980), American composer
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Abby Binay (born 1975), Filipino politician
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Abbie Boudreau (born 1979), American television news correspondent
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Abbie Farwell Brown (1871–1927), American author
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Abbie Brown (rugby union) (born 1996), British rugby sevens player
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Abbie Burgess (1839–1892), American lighthouse keeper
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Abby Choi (1995–2023), Hongkonger celebrity and murder victim
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Abby Cook (ice hockey) (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
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Abbie Cornett (born 1966), American politician
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Abbie Cornish
Abigail Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an Australian actress. In film, Cornish is known for her roles as Heidi in ''Somersault (film), Somersault'' (2004), Fanny Brawne in ''Bright Star (film), Bright Star'' (2009), Sweet Pea in ''Sucker Punch ...
(born 1982), Australian actress and rapper
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Abby Dalton (1932–2020), American actress
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Abbie Eaton
Abigail Eaton (born 2 January 1992) is an English racing driver, instructor and performance coach from the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. She last competed in Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain. She is best known for starring as the test dr ...
(born 1992), British racing driver
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Abby Ellin
Abby Ellin (born 1968) is an American author and journalist. The author of two books, including ''Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married'', she writes regularly for ''The New York Times'', and has contributed to '' ...
, American author and journalist
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Abby Elliott (born 1987), American actress and comedian
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Abby Erceg (born 1989), New Zealand footballer
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Abby Ershow, American nutritionist
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Abbie Huston Evans (1881–1983), American poet and teacher
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Abby Franquemont (born 1972), American textile crafts writer and lecturer
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Abbie Park Ferguson (1837–1919), American founder and president of Huguenot College in South Africa
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Abbie M. Gannett (1845–1895), American essayist, poet and philanthropist
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Abby and Brittany Hensel (born 1990), American conjoined twins
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Abby Hoffman
Abigail Golda Hoffman, (born February 11, 1947) is a Canadian former track and field athlete.
Hockey
Hoffman is Jewish, and was born in Toronto. She learned to skate when she was three. In the mid-1950s when she was nine, she wanted to play h ...
(born 1947), Canadian former middle-distance runner
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Abigail Johnson (born 1961), American businesswoman
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Abby Johnson (activist)
Abby Johnson (born July 11, 1980) is an American anti-abortion movement, anti-abortion activist who previously worked at Planned Parenthood as a clinic director, but resigned in October 2009. She states that she resigned after watching an aborti ...
(born 1980), American anti-abortion activist
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Abby Kelley (1811–1887), American abolitionist and radical social reformer
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Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins (1842–1924), American businesswoman
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Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), American social reformer
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Abby Martin (born 1984), American journalist
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Abbie K. Mason (1861–1908), Black American suffragist.
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Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903–1976), American philanthropist, first child of Abby Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Abbie Mitchell
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Abriea "Abbie" Mitchell Cook (25 September 1884 – 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer. She performed the role of Clara in the premiere production of George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'' i ...
(1884–1960), African-American operatic soprano
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Abbie Myers
Abbie Jane Myers (born 18 July 1994) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 257 in singles and 182 in doubles. Over her career, Myers won one singles title and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Wom ...
(born 1994), Australian tennis player
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Abby Meyers (born 1999), American basketball player
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Abby Phillip
Abigail Daniella Phillip (born November 25, 1988) is an American CNN news anchor who anchors '' CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip'' and CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five. She previously worked for ''Politico'' covering the Obama White House, '' ...
(born 1988, American journalist
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Abby Ringquist (born 1989), American ski jumper
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 – April 5, 1948) was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller ...
(1874–1948), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Abby Rockefeller (ecologist) (born 1943), American ecologist and feminist
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Abby Sage, Canadaian musician
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Abby Stein (born 1991), American transgender activist and writer
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Abby Steiner
Abby Kathryn Steiner (born November 24, 1999) is an American track and field sprinter. She is the U.S. indoor record holder in the 200 m and 300 m, and the NCAA record holder in the 200 m. Steiner holds personal bests of 10.9 ...
(born 1999), American sprinter
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Abby Sunderland (born 1993), American sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world
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Abbie Sweetwine (1921–2009), American military nurse, founder of modern paramedic medicine
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Abby Taylor (born 1985), Tobago politician
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Abby Travis (born 1969), American musician
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Abby Trott
Abby Trott is an American voice actress. She started out by acting in puppet shows in Japan, before moving to the United States and joining Bang Zoom! Entertainment, where she has worked on numerous anime, animation, and video game series. Some ...
, American voice actress
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Abby Wambach
Mary Abigail Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired Association football, soccer player, coach, and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach was a regular on ...
(born 1980), American retired soccer player and co
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Abby Moon Zeciroski (born 1973), American mixed media artist
Notable men
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Abby Altson (1866–1948), British artist
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Albert Brunies (1900–1978), American jazz cornetist nicknamed "Abbie"
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Abby Berlin (1907–1965), American film and TV director
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Abbie Cox (1902–1985), Canadian ice hockey player
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Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the ...
(1936–1989), American social and political activist
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Abbie Johnson (1871–1960), Canadian-born Major League Baseball player
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Abby Mann
Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.
Life and career
The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Mann was born as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia. He grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dou ...
(1927–2008), American film writer and producer
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Abbie Moore
Albert W. "Abbie" Moore is a Canadian retired ice hockey center who was the MOP for the 1954 NCAA Tournament.
Career
Abbie Moore was in the second recruit class for Ned Harkness after Rensselaer brought back its ice hockey program in 1949. Af ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
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Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Ugandan actor
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Abbie Newell (1897–1967), Canadian ice hockey player
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Abbie Rowe (1905–1967), American photographer
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Abbie Shaba (born 1958), Malawian politician
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Abbie Shadbolt (1887–1971), New Zealand rugby league player
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Abby Singer (1917–2014), film production manager and assistant director from the 1950s to the 1980s
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Abbie Wolanow, Israeli-born American soccer player in the early 1960s
Fictional characters
* Abbie, a character from the upcoming video game ''
Mindwave''
* Abby, a character from the horror comic series ''
Witch Creek Road''
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Abby (''Doctor Who''), in audio dramas based on the TV series ''Doctor Who''
* Abby, a non-playable
Mii opponent in the ''
Wii
The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, f ...
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Abigail "Abby" Anderson, character in the 2020
video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...
, ''
The Last of Us Part II
''The Last of Us Part II'' is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Set four years after '' The Last of Us'' (2013), the game focuses on two playable characters in a post-apo ...
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* Abby Archer, main protagonist of the 2006 YTV animated program ''
Grossology''
* Abigail Van Buren, pen name used for the
Dear Abby
''Dear Abby'' is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name.
History
According to Pau ...
syndicated personal advice column
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Abigail "Abby" Cadabby, on the television show ''Sesame Street''
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Abbie Carmichael, on the television show ''Law & Order'', played by Angie Harmon
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Abby Davies, on the soap opera ''Hollyoaks''
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Abby Deveraux, on the American soap opera ''Days of our Lives''
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Abby Hatcher, main protagonist of the eponymous 2018 animated children's program produced by
Guru Studio
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Abby Holland, a fictional comic book character who exists in the DC Universe
* Abigail “Abby” Jenson, the main character in the 2010 film ''
16 Wishes
Sixteen or 16 may refer to:
*16 (number)
*one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016
Films
* '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
* ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen
* ''Sixteen' ...
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* Abby Littman, on the Netflix comedy-drama series ''
Ginny & Georgia''
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Abby Lockhart
Abigail Marjorie "Abby" Lockhart, M.D. (née Wyczenski) is a fictional character from the NBC medical drama series '' ER,'' portrayed by Maura Tierney. She first appears as a guest star in the first half of the sixth season, before becoming a ...
, a medical doctor on the television series ''ER''
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Abby Maitland, on the ITV science-fiction drama ''Primeval''
* Abby Mallard, character in the 2005 animated film ''
Chicken Little''
* Abby Martin, the antagonist in season 2 of the television series ''
K.C. Undercover''
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Abby Newman, on the American soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''
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Abby Sciuto
Abigail Beethoven "Abby \ Abbs" Sciuto is a fictional character from the American television series '' NCIS''. She is portrayed by Pauley Perrette; in the season 10 episode "Hit and Run," a young Abby was played by Brighton Sharbino in flashba ...
, a forensic scientist on the television series ''NCIS''
* Abigail "Abbie" Scrapple, in the American comic strip ''
Abbie an' Slats'' (1937–1971)
* The title character of ''
Abby
Abby or Abbie is a given name, most often a shortened form of Abigail (name), Abigail and Albert (given name), Albert.
Notable women
* Abbie Betinis (born 1980), American composer
* Abby Binay (born 1975), Filipino politician
* Abbie Boudre ...
'', 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
* Abby Schmidt, the sister of Mike Schmidt in the ''
Five Nights at Freddy's
''Five Nights at Freddy's'' (''FNaF'') is a video game series and media franchise created by Scott Cawthon that includes video games, novels, graphic novels, and films. The story arcs typically follow a night guard or other character trying t ...
'' film
See also
References
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