Abishai
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 333since 1995
Abishai 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 | — | #5,608 | 16 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,456 | 23 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,739 | 20 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,111 | 18 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
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| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abishai! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Abishai
- 1,408 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #5,608)
- 2,459 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #5,608)
- 1,883 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2022 at #4,184 (25 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 68,916 boys born in 2024 were named Abishai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,184 in 2022, was only 1 in 69,840 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.1% of all boys named Abishai (137) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 20 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,856 |
| 2000s | 60 | #6,393 (2008) | #8,446 |
| 2010s | 137 | #4,739 (2018) | #6,345 |
| 2020s | 116 | #4,184 (2022) | #5,271 |
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.
Abishai in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 146,754 of them was named Abishai, which outranked 53.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,632Zayley13
- #8,632Zorah13
- #8,632Zuriah13
- #9,109Abishai12
- #9,109Aarianna12
- #9,109Abaigeal12
- #9,109Abeeha12
- #9,711Aaliyana11
- #9,711Aariya11
- #9,711Aashvi11
Tied with 601 names at #9,109; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 189,695 of them was named Abishai, which outranked 47.0% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,050Zyeir11
- #7,050Zymiere11
- #7,050Zymire11
- #7,559Abishai10
- #7,559Aadin10
- #7,559Aaran10
- #7,559Aaro10
- #8,158Aarit9
- #8,158Abdulhakeem9
- #8,158Adahir9
Tied with 598 names at #7,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.