Abhay

#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births

Peak · boys
2016 · 49 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
920
since 1977

Abhay over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Abhay has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #2,551, 2016boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#4,53922
2024#3,04540
2023#3,41634
2022#3,00341
2021#4,49422
2020#3,73428
2019#3,42633
2018#3,52431
2017#3,00639
2016#2,55149
2015#3,02238
2014#2,92939
2013#3,12235
2012#2,90540
2011#2,62646
2010#2,63246
2009#2,89441
2008#3,64629
2007#3,68728
2006#3,68627
2005#4,19821
2004#2,74138
2003#3,52825
2002#4,70316
2001#4,47617
2000#4,38917
1999#4,34116
1998#5,15912
1997#6,6188
1996#7,1367
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1992#8,4355
1991#5,5219
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Abhay! It came in at #4,582, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1978–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Abhay is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Abhay in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Abhay
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,494 spots since 2024 (#3,045 → #4,539)
  • 805 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #4,539)
  • 1,517 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #4,539)
Rise & fade · boys
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2016 at #2,551 (49 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,729
  • Highest: 1 in 38,729 boys born in 2016 were named Abhay (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 43.0% of all boys named Abhay (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#4,582 (1977)#4,582
1980s5#6,238 (1983)#6,238
1990s66#4,341 (1999)#6,154
2000s259#2,741 (2004)#3,795
2010s396#2,551 (2016)#2,974
2020s187#3,003 (2022)#3,705

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Abhay in 1977

boys
#4,582
7 births · 1 in 234,746 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #4,582Abhay7
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 234,746 of them was named Abhay, which outranked 33.2% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abhay
  1. #4,164Zephaniah8
  2. #4,164Ziad8
  3. #4,164Zion8
  4. #4,582Abhay7
  5. #4,582Abasi7
  6. #4,582Abdalla7
  7. #4,582Adarryl7
  8. #5,123Aamir6
  9. #5,123Aaryn6
  10. #5,123Abbas6

Tied with 540 names at #4,582; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →