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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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Abijah, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,479 names at #14,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 173,761 of them was named Abijah, which outranked 51.7% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,159Zedekiah12
- #5,159Zhane12
- #5,159Zyaire12
- #5,466Abijah11
- #5,466Aaric11
- #5,466Abdoulaye11
- #5,466Abdulmalik11
- #5,840Aayush10
- #5,840Abdoul10
- #5,840Abdulwahab10
Tied with 373 names at #5,466; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.