Abena
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 18 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 672since 1971
Abena over time
Rank among girls' names. Abena has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Abena! It came in at #6,619, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Abena is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,716 · 1 in 17,389
Best ever in a state: #757 in Maryland, 2006.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,716 | 6 | 1 in 17,389 |
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See more about Abena
- 1,310 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #7,133)
- 6,320 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #7,133)
- 1,314 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1973 at #3,481 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 76,048 girls born in 2006 were named Abena (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,481 in 1973, was only 1 in 81,012 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.9% of all girls named Abena (174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 109 | #3,481 (1973) | #5,518 |
| 1980s | 77 | #4,857 (1987) | #6,797 |
| 1990s | 109 | #5,065 (1996) | #8,099 |
| 2000s | 174 | #5,383 (2006) | #6,882 |
| 2010s | 131 | #7,031 (2013) | #8,817 |
| 2020s | 72 | #6,691 (2021) | #9,026 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Abena in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 92,264 of them was named Abena, which outranked 68.1% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,883Yusra20
- #4,883Zarina20
- #4,883Zion20
- #5,065Abena19
- #5,065Aaryn19
- #5,065Accacia19
- #5,065Addy19
- #5,280Adaline18
- #5,280Ahlam18
- #5,280Ahuva18
Tied with 214 names at #5,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.