Abbas

#2,284 for boys in 2025, 61 births

Peak · boys
2018 · 95 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,843
since 1975

Abbas over time

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Rank among boys' names. Abbas has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #1,671, 2018boys
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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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rankbirths
2025#2,28461
2024#1,87885
2023#2,12968
2022#2,16867
2021#2,46454
2020#2,02470
2019#1,77787
2018#1,67195
2017#2,09166
2016#1,93675
2015#1,95574
2014#2,08267
2013#1,94271
2012#2,44851
2011#2,31755
2010#2,63246
2009#2,45152
2008#2,63247
2007#2,53349
2006#2,88139
2005#2,70140
2004#2,95334
2003#2,54540
2002#2,68535
2001#2,27744
2000#2,99329
1999#2,72231
1998#2,78229
1997#2,75028
1996#4,87812
1995#3,10022
1994#3,75117
1993#4,69712
1992#4,87211
1991#3,46217
1990#3,60716
1989#4,52711
1988#2,76520
1987#3,73112
1986#3,88211
1985#3,59912
1984#4,9737
1983#3,88410
1982#3,69211
1981#4,1539
1980#4,4958
1979#3,16813
1978#5,7725
1977#5,1236
1976#4,4187
1975#5,4645
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Abbas! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

See more about Abbas
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 406 spots since 2024 (#1,878#2,284)
  • 260 spots since 2020 (#2,024#2,284)
  • 329 spots since 2015 (#1,955#2,284)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,671 (95 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 19,117
  • Highest: 1 in 19,117 boys born in 2018 were named Abbas (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 28,001 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 37.3% of all boys named Abbas (687) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s36#3,168 (1979)#4,789
1980s111#2,765 (1988)#3,970
1990s195#2,722 (1999)#3,662
2000s409#2,277 (2001)#2,665
2010s687#1,671 (2018)#2,085
2020s405#1,878 (2024)#2,158

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.

Abbas in 1979

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#3,168
13 births · 1 in 132,426 boys

Top boys' names in 1979

  1. #1Michael67,713
  2. #2Christopher50,659
  3. #3Jason50,369
  4. #4David42,053
  5. #5James39,351
  6. #6Matthew35,621
  7. #7John35,410
  8. #8Robert34,015
  9. #9Joshua31,120
  10. #10Brian28,659
  11. #3,168Abbas13
More about 1979

boys

1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 132,426 of them was named Abbas, which outranked 55.2% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Abbas
  1. #3,018Vinod14
  2. #3,018Winfield14
  3. #3,018Wynn14
  4. #3,168Abbas13
  5. #3,168Aaren13
  6. #3,168Adama13
  7. #3,168Ahman13
  8. #3,357Adil12
  9. #3,357Akili12
  10. #3,357Albin12

Tied with 188 names at #3,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,228Tyrel#2,134#906
  2. 471Jace#1,186#715
  3. 387Chaz#1,371#984
  4. 311Tyrell#1,051#740
  5. 308Frederic#1,203#895
Fallers
  1. 1,230Dequan#927#2,157
  2. 641Rahsaan#869#1,510
  3. 446Chip#989#1,435
  4. 308Rashaun#996#1,304
  5. 307Kenya#749#1,056

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

See the top 100 for 1979