Abijah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 82.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 347since 1977
Abijah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | — | #9,670 | 7 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | — | #5,318 | 17 | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | #5,252 | 17 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #5,466 | 11 |
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| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abijah! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Abijah is popular in 2013
No state had 5 or more boys named Abijah in 2013, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abijah
- 2,882 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #9,714)
- 1,647 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #9,714)
- 2,223 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2013 at #4,981 (18 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 105,088 boys born in 2013 were named Abijah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.6% of all boys named Abijah (120) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 21 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,617 |
| 1990s | 29 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,568 |
| 2000s | 112 | #5,040 (2000) | #6,825 |
| 2010s | 120 | #4,981 (2013) | #7,234 |
| 2020s | 60 | #6,147 (2022) | #7,935 |
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.
Abijah in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 219,343 of them was named Abijah, which outranked 37.9% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,000Zulma9
- #11,000Zyanne9
- #11,000Zyionna9
- #11,969Abijah8
- #11,969Aalaya8
- #11,969Aaleiyah8
- #11,969Aalisha8
- #13,150Aailyah7
- #13,150Aakriti7
- #13,150Aala7
Tied with 1,180 names at #11,969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 105,088 of them was named Abijah, which outranked 64.6% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,804Zalmen19
- #4,804Zayde19
- #4,804Zebediah19
- #4,981Abijah18
- #4,981Aaric18
- #4,981Aaryn18
- #4,981Aceson18
- #5,171Adama17
- #5,171Adrion17
- #5,171Aleem17
Tied with 189 names at #4,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.