Avigail is the Hebrew form of Abigail and means "my father is joy" or "father's joy". In the Bible Abigail was a wise and beautiful woman who became a wife of King David, and the Hebrew spelling is favored in Jewish and especially Orthodox families. In the United States Avigail ranked number 2949 in 2000, peaked at number 1787 in 2016 and stands at number 2122 among girls' names in 2025.