Absalom
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,765
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 208since 1971
Absalom over time
Rank among boys' names. Absalom has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
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| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
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| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Absalom! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Absalom is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Absalom in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Absalom
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1974 at #4,190 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 172,289 boys born in 2024 were named Absalom (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,190 in 1974, was only 1 in 224,619 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.9% of all boys named Absalom (56) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 25 | #4,190 (1974) | #4,794 |
| 1980s | 20 | #5,200 (1988) | #5,870 |
| 1990s | 55 | #4,993 (1990) | #7,398 |
| 2000s | 17 | #9,112 (2000) | #9,953 |
| 2010s | 56 | #7,546 (2017) | #9,895 |
| 2020s | 35 | #7,765 (2024) | #10,018 |
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.
Absalom in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 234,548 of them was named Absalom, which outranked 32.7% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,157Zac8
- #4,157Zalmen8
- #4,157Zebulen8
- #4,554Absalom7
- #4,554Abasi7
- #4,554Abdallah7
- #4,554Adair7
- #5,059Aamir6
- #5,059Aaren6
- #5,059Abdel6
Tied with 504 names at #4,554; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.