Abhay
#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 49 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 920since 1977
Abhay over time
Rank among boys' names. Abhay has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #3,426 | 33 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #2,929 | 39 |
| 2013 | #3,122 | 35 |
| 2012 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
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| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
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| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
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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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,447 · 1 in 37,923
Best ever in a state: #671 in Virginia, 2011.
Show every state
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| California | #2,447 | 5 | 1 in 37,923 |
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See more about Abhay
- 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)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2016 at #2,551 (49 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 43.0% of all boys named Abhay (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #4,582 (1977) | #4,582 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 66 | #4,341 (1999) | #6,154 |
| 2000s | 259 | #2,741 (2004) | #3,795 |
| 2010s | 396 | #2,551 (2016) | #2,974 |
| 2020s | 187 | #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 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 61,646 of them was named Abhay, which outranked 73.4% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,653Zedekiah29
- #3,653Zenith29
- #3,653Ziare29
- #3,734Abhay28
- #3,734Advith28
- #3,734Amor28
- #3,734Astro28
- #3,811Adyan27
- #3,811Affan27
- #3,811Aleczander27
Tied with 76 names at #3,734; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.