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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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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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.
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 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Abijah, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.