Abishai
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 333since 1995
Abishai 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 | — | #5,608 | 16 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,456 | 23 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,739 | 20 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,111 | 18 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
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| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abishai! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Abishai is popular in 2017
No state had 5 or more boys named Abishai in 2017, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abishai
- 1,408 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #5,608)
- 2,459 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #5,608)
- 1,883 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2022 at #4,184 (25 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 68,916 boys born in 2024 were named Abishai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,184 in 2022, was only 1 in 69,840 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.1% of all boys named Abishai (137) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 20 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,856 |
| 2000s | 60 | #6,393 (2008) | #8,446 |
| 2010s | 137 | #4,739 (2018) | #6,345 |
| 2020s | 116 | #4,184 (2022) | #5,271 |
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.
Abishai in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 102,831 of them was named Abishai, which outranked 64.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,935Zenith19
- #4,935Ziv19
- #4,935Zohan19
- #5,111Abishai18
- #5,111Aadam18
- #5,111Aceyn18
- #5,111Ade18
- #5,297Abdifatah17
- #5,297Abdulahi17
- #5,297Ahmere17
Tied with 185 names at #5,111; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.