Abisai
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #12,142 · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 92.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 46 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,074since 1987
Abisai 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 | — | #3,757 | 29 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,343 | 24 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,691 | 30 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,912 | 27 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | — | #2,895 | 39 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,772 | 43 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,223 | 35 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,879 | 41 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,811 | 42 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,578 | 46 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,701 | 40 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,419 | 46 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,186 | 29 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,742 | 34 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,939 | 28 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,747 | 27 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abisai! It came in at #4,239, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Abisai
- 814 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #3,757)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #3,757)
- 166 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2004 at #2,419 (46 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,152 boys born in 2004 were named Abisai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.0% of all boys named Abisai (365) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 31 | #3,809 (1989) | #4,600 |
| 1990s | 177 | #2,747 (1996) | #3,965 |
| 2000s | 365 | #2,419 (2004) | #2,920 |
| 2010s | 339 | #2,772 (2012) | #3,401 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,570 (2020) | #3,974 |
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.
Abisai in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 70,881 of them was named Abisai, which outranked 72.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,130Yuridia26
- #5,130Zanyah26
- #5,130Zanylah26
- #5,284Abisai25
- #5,284Aamira25
- #5,284Aarvi25
- #5,284Abbigayle25
- #5,445Aamina24
- #5,445Acelyn24
- #5,445Adaiah24
Tied with 160 names at #5,284; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 63,258 of them was named Abisai, which outranked 74.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,524Waseem31
- #3,524Wrigley31
- #3,524Zaxton31
- #3,596Abisai30
- #3,596Advay30
- #3,596Amire30
- #3,596Arjen30
- #3,681Abdoulaye29
- #3,681Affan29
- #3,681Akil29
Tied with 84 names at #3,596; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.